Pier Bryden, MD is a psychiatrist, clinical teacher, and educator in the Department of Psychiatry at The Hospital for Sick Children and the Pre-clerkship Director of Undergraduate Medical Education and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She has attended the University of Toronto, Oxford University, and McMaster University, where she studied medicine before completing a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry and women’s mental health. She has served as Canadian Liaison to the Ethics Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, where her research focused on medical professionalism in education as well as the ethical and legal treatment of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders. She is an editor of Ars Medica, a medical literary journal published by the University of Toronto Press.