Sebastien Prat is a psychiatrist and a medical director in the forensic psychiatry program at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at McMaster University. He is currently the President of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and the Chair of the Psychiatry and Behavioural Science Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.