Zafiris Jeff Daskalakis MD, PhD

Dr. Zafiris J. Daskalakis is Professor of Psychiatry and Temerty Chair in Therapeutic Brain Intervention and Chief of the Mood and Anxiety Division at CAMH.

Dr. Zafiris J. Daskalakis was born and raised in Toronto. He initially started his undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto and completed medical school at Queen’s University in 1994. He subsequently entered the residency training in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto which he completed in 1999. While still a resident, Dr. Daskalakis began graduate studies in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto, supervised by Drs. Shitij Kapur (Imaging/Psychiatry) and Robert Chen (Neurophysiology). He completed fellowship training and his Ph.D. in 2002 at which point he started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Daskalakis was promoted to the rank of Professor of Psychiatry in 2013 and he is co-director of the Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention and Chief of Mood and Anxiety at CAMH.