Dr. Soyeon Kim, PhD
Research Scientist / Clinical Epidemiologist

Dr. Kim is a research scientist conducting research in psychiatric epidemiology at the Waypoint Research Institute. Before joining Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University, working with Drs. Kathy Georgiades and Michael Boyle. As a postdoctoral fellow, she expanded her research program to incorporate the systematic examination of social processes and how they relate to mental health problems in youth, applying psychiatric epidemiological methods and approaches. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she received various awards, including the E.B. Eastburn Postdoctoral Fellowship Award and Social Impact Poster Award (1st place) in the McMaster Innovation Showcase. So far, she has secured nine research grants totalling CAD 2,238,800. Her research has culminated in 29 published papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 20 first-author papers and two book chapters. Her research program aims to examine the sociocultural determinants of youths’ mental health, focusing on ethnoculturally marginalized youth and developing and scaling equitable and culturally responsive programs to mitigate mental health challenges.

She received her Ph.D. in June 2015 in Developmental Psychology and Education from the University of Toronto, working with Dr. Rosemary Tannock. Her dissertation research examined the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms underlying ADHD symptoms using neuroimaging and psychophysical paradigms. She has also trained and worked as a child and adolescent clinical psychologist upon obtaining her master’s degree in clinical psychology.

Keywords: mental health, youth, social-contextual factors, intervention. 

Research Interests

Neurocognitive, clinical, and epidemiological psychology; youth mental health; social-contextual factors contributing to mental health problems in youth and young adults.

Publications

Research Gate Publications

Student / Volunteer Opportunities

Dr. Kim is currently accepting students for research projects.

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