Clare Pain MD, MSc., FRCPC., D.Sc (Hons) Addis Ababa University, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She works at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto and at the Canadian Center for Victims of Torture for refugee mental health in Toronto, and at the new Mount Sinai Hospital pilot partnership in indigenous mental health with the Community Mental Health Program and Addictions Program; a Division of Weeneebayko Area Health Authority.

She is founder and senior strategist of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC), an ongoing educational partnership between Addis Ababa University (AAU) and the University of Toronto initiated in 2003, working to strengthen educational capacity and sustainability in graduate training at AAU. In July 2014 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from AAU for her work to assist the development of psychiatry in Ethiopia.

Her clinical focus is the assessment and treatment of individuals including refugees, who continue to suffer from the effects of psychological trauma. She has lectured and taught on various aspects of psychological trauma including trans-cultural issues and increasingly on global mental health. She has published a number of articles and three books.
• Leszcz, M., Pain, C., Hunter, J., Maunder, R., & Ravitz, P. (2015) Psychotherapy Essentials to Go: Achieving Psychotherapy Effectiveness. New York, United States: W. W. Norton & Company Inc;
• Lanius, R., Vermetten, E., & Pain. (2010)The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic. Editors, C. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press;
• Ogden P, Minton K, & Pain C. (2006) Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. New York, United States: W. W. Norton & Company Inc;