Daniel is an attending psychiatrist and Clinician Investigator at the University Health Network as well as the Inner City Health Associates in Toronto. He is a clinical lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

He works on the IMPACT Assertive Community Treatment team at UHN, as well as the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) team through ICHA. Daniel is a certified CALM therapist (Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully) and has received training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

He has also completed the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies MDMA Therapy Training Program. Daniel is a co-founder and faculty member at the UHN Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research Group. Together with Drs. Sarah Hales and Emma Hapke, he is co-Principal Investigator with the Psilocybin-assisted Existential, Attachment, and RelationaL (PEARL) therapy research program; PEARL is a novel psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for patients with advanced disease and their caregivers.

Daniel is also interested in the mental health impacts of the climate crisis and is co-author of the Canadian Psychiatric Association’s 2023 position statement entitled “Mental Health and the Climate Crisis: A Call to Action for Canadian Psychiatrists”.