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Zahra Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, specializing in Forensic Psychiatry. She holds an MD and is board-certified in psychiatry. Zahra completed her Bachelor of Science at McMaster University, after which she attended medical school, with the final two years spent in New York City. She completed her residency in psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Bronx Lebanon Hospital, where she served as the chief resident. Following her residency, Zahra pursued a forensic fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her professional experience includes working with low socioeconomic status patient populations in New York, where she participated in quality improvement initiatives, ACGME accreditation panels, and has contributed to academic presentations and publications, including a book on the neuroscience of schizophrenia. Her research interests focus on violence risk assessment and the issues surrounding confinement in correctional settings.
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