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Simon Hatcher

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Full ProfessorPsychiatryUniversity of Ottawa

Simon Hatcher

Full Professor

Psychiatry

Faculty of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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25 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 17 research grants (17 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Publications

212

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Research

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Suicide Mental Health Public Safety Personnel Depression Homelessness Suicide Prevention Burnout Vicarious Trauma

Latest papers

Lived Experience of Suicide in Suicide Researchers.
Crisis · 2026
Sex differences in the clinical characteristics of suicide among individuals with bipolar disorder: An observational study of coroner data in Toronto.
Journal of affective disorders · 2026
Deaths in supported housing: a cohort study of mortality of previously homeless people moving into supported housing units in Ottawa, Canada.
BMJ open · 2026 · senior author

All 51 publications

Latest funding

A living systematic review, meta-analysis and dose-response of randomized controlled trials testing serotonergic psychedelics: efficacy, acceptability, tolerability, safety and publication bias within and across health conditions
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$348,076
The experience of public safety personnel (PSP) families after a suicide and PSP organizations response to a suicide: A qualitative study and creation of a family-centred response guide to PSP suicides
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$267,751
Addressing climate (in)justice among people experiencing homelessness: A mixed methods study
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$124,998

All 22 grants and awards

51 publications.

Lived Experience of Suicide in Suicide Researchers.

Danaee E, Chan P, Chen VV, Lebovic R, Mason SG, Hatcher S, Klonsky ED, Schaffer A, Mitchell R, Steinberg R, O'Connor R, Zaheer J, Sinyor M

Crisis2026

DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a001062 PMID: 42318647

Sex differences in the clinical characteristics of suicide among individuals with bipolar disorder: An observational study of coroner data in Toronto.

Amini J, Schaffer A, Hatcher S, Dmetrichuk JM, Sinyor M, Mitchell R

Journal of affective disorders2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2025.120595 PMID: 41177270

Deaths in supported housing: a cohort study of mortality of previously homeless people moving into supported housing units in Ottawa, Canada.

Wisener N, Edgar NE, Marouf N, Ward B, Hatcher S

BMJ open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-118421 PMID: 42665348

Canadian Psychiatry Human Resource Planning: Delphi-Method Study of Academic Chairs of Psychiatry of Canada: Planification des ressources humaines en psychiatrie au Canada : étude menée à l’aide des méthodes Delphi auprès des chefs de département de psychiatrie au Canada

Sareen J, Isaak C, Perera E, Ross DA, Agyapong V, Ahmed AG, Neufeld KJ, Turecki G, Haggarty J, Roy-Desruisseaux J

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry20262 citations

DOI: 10.1177/07067437251408174

Interventions for stimulant use in people who are homeless or vulnerably housed: a scoping review of the evidence including trauma-informed approaches.

Edgar NE, Taha H, Ly V, Hatcher S

Harm reduction journal2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-025-01311-y PMID: 41044583

Understanding Canadian experiences of suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic: protocol of a pan-Canadian qualitative study.

Baharikhoob P, Hollenberg E, Cuperfain AB, Rudoler D, Nicoll G, Blumberger D, Bolton J, Chartier GB, Crawford A, Furqan Z, Gajaria A, Gratzer D, Hatcher S, Husain MI, Kurdyak P, Lam JSH, Lavergne MR, Marshall EG, Mulsant B, Reid N, Schütz CG, Stergiopoulos V, Zaheer J

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-100048 PMID: 41005773

Developing Recommendations to Improve Crisis Line Supports for Public Safety Personnel in Canada: Protocol for a Multimethod National Study.

Castillo G, Clarkin C, Rajaratnam T, Ahmad F, Anderson S, Dela Cruz GA, Aleem N, Carleton RN, Charbonneau M, Crewdson A, Dubé D, Gomez M, Hardy J, Hargreaves C, Hatcher S, Hosseiny F, Mishara B, Serhal E, Singla DR, Sinyor M, Tavares C, VanderSluis K, Wolfgram Y, Zaheer J, Crawford A

JMIR research protocols2025

DOI: 10.2196/75285 PMID: 41004803

Suicide Deaths by Gas Inhalation in Toronto, Canada - An Observational Study of Emerging Methods of Suicide From 1998 to 2020.

Men VY, Ming Chan PP, Schaffer A, Steinberg R, Mitchell R, Dmetrichuk JM, Fai Yip PS, Hatcher S, Sinyor M

Crisis2025

DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a001015 PMID: 40611733

Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis: Reducing Self-Harm in Adolescents: Pooled Treatment Effects, Study, Treatment, and Participant Moderators.

Wright-Hughes A, Farrin AJ, Fonagy P, Ougrin D, Stahl D, Wright J, Irving D, Mughal F, Truscott A, Diggins E, Chanen A, Cooney E, Carter G, Clover K, Dadds M, Diamond G, Esposito-Smythers C, Green J, Griffiths H, Hassanian-Moghaddam H, Hatcher S, Hazell P, Husain N, Kaess M, King C, Morthorst B, O'Connor RC, Santamarina-Perez P, Tyrer P, Walwyn R, Cottrell D

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2025.01.017 PMID: 39892472

Efficacy, all-cause discontinuation, and safety of serotonergic psychedelics and MDMA to treat mental disorders: A living systematic review with meta-analysis.

Højlund M, Kafali HY, Kırmızı B, Fusar-Poli P, Correll CU, Cortese S, Sabé M, Fiedorowicz J, Saraf G, Zein J, Berk M, Husain MI, Rosenblat JD, Rubaiyat R, Corace K, Wong S, Hatcher S, Kaluzienski M, Yatham LN, Cipriani A, Gosling CJ, Carhart-Harris R, Tanuseputro P, Myran DT, Fabiano N, Moher D, Mayo LM, Nicholls SG, White T, Prisco M, Radua J, Vieta E, Ladha KS, Katz J, Veroniki AA, Solmi M

European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.09.011 PMID: 41205366

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Simon Hatcher

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Lived Experience of Suicide in Suicide Researchers.

Sex differences in the clinical characteristics of suicide among individuals with bipolar disorder: An observational study of coroner data in Toronto.

Deaths in supported housing: a cohort study of mortality of previously homeless people moving into supported housing units in Ottawa, Canada.

Canadian Psychiatry Human Resource Planning: Delphi-Method Study of Academic Chairs of Psychiatry of Canada: Planification des ressources humaines en psychiatrie au Canada : étude menée à l’aide des méthodes Delphi auprès des chefs de département de psychiatrie au Canada

Interventions for stimulant use in people who are homeless or vulnerably housed: a scoping review of the evidence including trauma-informed approaches.

Understanding Canadian experiences of suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic: protocol of a pan-Canadian qualitative study.

Developing Recommendations to Improve Crisis Line Supports for Public Safety Personnel in Canada: Protocol for a Multimethod National Study.

Suicide Deaths by Gas Inhalation in Toronto, Canada - An Observational Study of Emerging Methods of Suicide From 1998 to 2020.

Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis: Reducing Self-Harm in Adolescents: Pooled Treatment Effects, Study, Treatment, and Participant Moderators.

Efficacy, all-cause discontinuation, and safety of serotonergic psychedelics and MDMA to treat mental disorders: A living systematic review with meta-analysis.

Frequent collaborators

Mark Sinyor

Ian Colman

Ayal Schaffer

Mark Kaluzienski

Marco Solmi

Kednapa Thavorn

Allison Crawford

Kednapa Thavorn

Juveria Zaheer

Paul Links

Rosalie Steinberg

Andrew Greenshaw

Marnin Heisel

Justin Presseau

Simon Kitto

Arun Ravindran

Paul Kurdyak

Dar Dowlatshahi

Dale Corbett

Benoit Mulsant

Jitender Sareen

Zainab Samaan

Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy

Peter Lawlor

Daniel Blumberger

Franco Momoli

David Moher

Vicky Stergiopoulos

Monica Taljaard

Roger Zemek

John O'Neil

Vicky Stergiopoulos

James Bolton

Gustavo Turecki

Shawn Marshall

Sean Dukelow

Karin Neufeld

William Gardner

Alexandra Heber

Valerie Taylor