Jordan Bawks, MD, is a recent graduate of the University of Toronto Psychiatry Residency program, and now works as a general adult psychiatrist at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) at McMaster University in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, with a special interest in psychotherapy education and therapeutic communication. He is a post-academic Candidate at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. During his psychiatric residency he was a core member of the PsychEd Podcast (psychedpodcast.org) and received several teaching awards, including the Resident Psychiatric Educator Award with the Association for Academic Psychiatry.