Rachel Goud is a fourth year medical student at the University of Toronto, native to Edmonton/Calgary having completed her first degree in Neuroscience at the University of Alberta. Passionate for psychiatry, she has been involved extensively in mental health programs across Alberta such as with Alberta Health Services helping deliver a DBT program for emotional dysregulation for families across Alberta, as a mental health advocate with CASA Mental Health, peer mentor with the Center for Autism Services Alberta, as well as worked in computational psychiatry research with her alma mater. Rachel’s research interests lie in investigating novel psychiatric treatments and intersections with neuroscience, including both interventional and psychotherapeutics particularly in the setting of substance use disorders such as cannabis use disorder (CUD). She first became engaged with the Mood Disorders Society of Canada in 2021 as a volunteer supporting MIRA, the Mental Health Virtual Assistant and later as a National Project Coordinator and Sustainability Manager. Keen advocate for mental health, she hopes to work to reduce stigma and discrimination in clinical and public spaces. Outside of work, she is an avid skier, runner, and enjoys tutoring high schoolers in math/sciences.