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Carla Whillier is mental health lawyer representing clients before the Consent and Capacity Board as well as the Ontario Review Board. She is cross appointed to the Health Professions/Services Appeal and Review Board. Carla is certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a specialist in health law and has a long history of volunteering with Camp Trillium and Homes First Society.

Panel includes Dr. John Bradford

Dr. John M W Bradford MBChB DPM FFPsych MRCPsych DABPN DABFP FRCPC CMPsychiatrist Forensic Program St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton,Professor Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences McMaster UniversityEmeritus Professor University of Ottawa.Honorary Titles: Fellow of the Royal College (UK), Distinguished Life Fellow American Psychiatric Assn (USA), Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists (USA), Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Assn, Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Centennial Medal, Member of the Order of Canada

Brief Biography:

Brief Biography [January 2021]: Dr. John M W Bradford

Dr. Bradford was the Professor and Head of the Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Ottawa until 2010 and retired from the University in 2015. He was cross-appointed as Professor in the Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa. He was a founder of the Royal Institute

Mental Health Reosfearch (affiliated with the University of Ottawa). He is a senior researcher at the Institute. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Ottawa. He is currently a Full Professor at McMaster University.

Dr. Bradford is a graduate in Medicine and received a Degree of Psychological Medicine from the University of Capetown, South Africa. He holds specialist degrees in Psychiatry from South Africa, the UK, USA, and Canada; he also has an added qualification in Forensic Psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a Founder of Forensic Psychiatry granted by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Dr. Bradford’s research interests have focused primarily on assessing and treating the paraphilias and other aspects of forensic psychiatry. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers; more than 55 chapters in academic books, including textbooks; presented at over 350 peer-reviewed international and national conferences; and co-authored five books.

Dr. Bradford’s expertise in forensic psychiatry is well recognized, not only from his peers but also from the media and judiciary and many levels of government. He has sat on various task forces, expert panels, served as an expert witness, and provided special consultations to national and international working groups.

Dr. Bradford has received every available forensic psychiatry award in the United States and Canada other than the Guttmacher Award [USA]. These awards are the Silver Apple Award; Red Apple Award; Golden Apple Award; Seymour Pollock Award; and Isaac Ray Award, from the United States, and Canada the Bruno Cormier Award.

He was the recipient of the Isaac Ray Award in 2009, an international award (not limited to psychiatrists) for outstanding contributions to jurisprudence and mental health granted by the American Psychiatric Association. He also received the Inaugural Career Achievement Award from the Canadian Psychological Association for the applied science of psychopharmacology. He was on DSM IV workgroups and was a scientific advisor to the Sexual Disorders workgroup DSM 5. He has co-chaired the Task Force of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry on the biological treatment of the paraphilias. There was a follow-up task force where he was a member, which published another report in 2020. He also co- chaired a Task Force of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry on adolescent sexual offenders. All were published in the Journal of the World Societies of Biological Psychiatry. He was also the first Chair of Research of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Education and Research Institute from 2002 until 2015.

Dr. Bradford has received several honorary appointments, including being made a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK), a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. He also received the Order of Canada in 2011 and the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal in 2012. He received a Canada 150 pin acknowledging the achievements of outstanding individuals in Canada on June 7, 2017. In 2019 he was awarded the Yochelson Scholarship from Yale University.

Panel Member Lawyer David Sandor

David Sandor is a graduate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor, and has received further training through the National Child Protection Training Center in the United States.  He was called to the Bar in February 2002.  He began his practice with a focus on Defence-side Child Protection and Criminal Law involving child witnesses.  He has litigated several cases in both the criminal and child protection fields involving assessments and expert opinions, and has provided Continuing Legal Education in this field to Child Protection Lawyers across the province, primarily as founder and first elected president of the Ontario Association of Child Protection Lawyers.  As a result of Child Protection’s regular reliance on Psychological Assessments to assist in the identification, quantification and qualification of risk to children, Mr. Sandor has extensive motion and trial experience associated with the admissibility of expert opinions, including those relying upon psycho-sexual evaluations.  Having recently received a full-time teaching position with an affiliate of Brigham Young University, he continues to litigate select defence cases involving child witnesses, and is regularly appointed to represent children through the Office of the Children’s Lawyer.  He is a Panel Member with the Ontario Review Board, and serves on several boards through Southwestern Ontario.