Soma Ganesan

Soma is the Medical Director, Psychiatry at Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia Hospital; Medical Director for Adult Mental Health Services, Vancouver Community, and Vancouver Coastal Health; and Physician Leader for Riverview Hospital. Soma is also a Clinical Professor for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the Division of Cross Cultural Psychiatry; and Commissioner for the Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission. Through all these positions he has been an advocate for mental health services for immigrants, refugees and people of all cultures; trying to convince researchers, government officials, policy makers and others of the importance of cross-cultural psychiatry.Soma’s research focuses on immigrant mental health, cross-cultural psychiatry, and spirituality.