Dr Meng-Chuan Lai

Meng-Chuan Lai [賴孟泉] is a staff psychiatrist and senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Advisory Council for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigeneity and Accessibility in Clinical Care at the Department of Psychiatry, and Graduate Faculty at the Institute of Medical Science and Department of Psychology, University of Toronto. He is an INSAR Fellow and an editor of the journals Autism and Molecular Autism and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Lai received his MD from the National Taiwan University and completed psychiatry residency as well as child and adolescent psychiatry subspecialty training at the National Taiwan University Hospital. He holds a PhD in psychiatry and neuroscience from the University of Cambridge, where he also conducted post-doctoral research in autism neuroscience. Dr. Lai’s research is supported by multiple federal and international research grants alongside extensive national and international collaborations, focusing on autism and neurodivergence, sex and gender, and mental health.