Mohamad Elfakhani MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

LHSC Site Chief

	Med School:	American University of Beirut
	Residency:	Western University
	Additional Training:	Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate - Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma Certificate in Alcohol and Drug Addiction Studies (CADAS) - Wayne State University
	Clinical area of expertise:	Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Inpatient Psychiatry, Medical education
	E-mail:	mohamad.elfakhani@lhsc.on.ca
	Administrator Partner:	Sarah McLaughlin Sarah.McLaughlin@lhsc.on.ca 519.685.8500 x57152

Profile

Dr. Mohamad Elfakhani has served as the Site Head of Psychiatry at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) since 2019. He was also Interim Department Head of Psychiatry at LHSC from 2023 to 2025 during that same period. Dr. Elfakhani is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Western University. He finished his residency training in psychiatry at Western University and has also completed a Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate through the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and a Certificate in Alcohol and Addiction Studies from Wayne State University. His clinical practice currently involves Inpatient/Outpatient components, Refugee Psychiatry, Emergency Psychiatry, CL Psychiatry and Electroconvulsive therapy. In addition to his administrative role as Site Head and a very busy clinical practice, Dr. Elfakhani is passionate about medical education. He was formerly Course Chair for Meds 5207 and also previous to that was the Week Captain for Mood Disorders for the course. He also regularly supervises third and fourth year clerkship students and psychiatry residents at Western University.

Publications

Choi JW, Lee JH, MacDougall A, Sharma V, Elfakhani M, Liu A, Kim BJ, Lee SJ, Lee YJ, Lim EJ, Kang N, Cha B, Lee D. Residual Subjective Depressive Symptoms and Resilience in Patients with Bipolar Disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. (2025 Jul 1);380:631–636.

Yoon H, Lee J, MacDougall A, Elfakhani M, Hofkirchner A, Liu N, Sharma S. Anxiety Symptoms and Associated Psychological and Job-related Factors among Hospital Nurses. Psychiatry Investigation. (2024 Jan);21(1):100-108.

Wylie L, Van Meyel R., Harder H., Sukhera J., Luc C., Ganjavi H., Elfakhani M., Wardrop N. Assessing Trauma in a Transcultural Context: Challenges in Mental Health Care with Immigrants and Refugees. Public Health Reviews. (2018) 39:22.

Buxton J, Piggott T, Dickson C, Luchak M, Shore B. Working Group Members: Elfakhani M, Groot ER, McKay K, McTavish E, Rajaprakash M, Reimer J, Ricketts M, Sikora C, Singh D, Strong D, Summers A, Toor H, Willard R. Public Health Electives for Medical Students: Recommendations and Survey Analysis. Working Group on Engaging Medical Students in Public Health. The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, March 2015.

Boutros NN, Brockhaus-Dumke A, Gjini K, Vedeniapin A, Elfakhani M, Burroughs S, Keshavan M. Sensory-gating deficit of the N100 mid-latency auditory evoked potential in medicated schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research, Volume 113, Issue 2, Pages 339-346. Sept. 2009.

Leon-Sarmiento FE, Elfakhani M, Boutros NN. The Motor Evoked Potential in AIDS and HAM/TSP: State of the Evidence. Arq Neuropsiquiatr, Volume 67, Issue 4, Pages 1157-1163. 2009.