Simon Hatcher is currently a Full Professor of Psychiatry at The University of Ottawa having moved there from Auckland in May 2012. He worked for 18 years in Auckland, New Zealand as a clinical academic running a Liaison Psychiatry in a general hospital and at The Department of Psychological Medicine at The University of Auckland. His main research interests include suicide, self-harm, psychotherapies, psychiatry in the general hospital setting and e-therapies. He provided the clinical input into the John Kirwan Journal program www.depression.org.nz . Currently he is based clinically at The Royal Ottawa Hospital where he is working in an anxiety disorders clinic and providing services in the downtown homeless shelters. Academically he is based at The University of Ottawa’s Institute of Mental Health Research where he is the vice chair of research in the Department of Psychiatry.