Journal Articles

Impacts of cognitive forcing and need for cognition on biased-AI assisted decision making about mental health emergencies.
Scientific Reports.
Authors: Vejandla, S., Ray, A., Sikstrom, L., Ratto, M., Zaheer, J., Maslej, M.

Fairness analysis of machine learning predictions of aggression in acute psychiatric care.
Preprint. npj Mental Health Research.
Authors: Wang, Y., Sikstrom, L., Xiao, R., Findlay, Z., Zaheer, J., Hill, S., Maslej., M.

Ethical and legal considerations of artificial intelligence applications in psychiatric violence risk assessment: A scoping review protocol. PLoS One.
Authors: Lee, A., Buchman, D., Hui, K., Nunnelley, S., Penney, S., Rodak, T., Zaheer, J., Sikstrom, L..

Examining Systemic and Interpersonal Bias in Violence Risk Assessments of Patients in Acute Psychiatric Care.
In Psychiatric Services.
Authors: Dharma, C., Bondy, S.J., Sikstrom, L., Muirhead, P., Zaheer, J., Maslej, M.

Knowledge user engagement for digital health data in suicide prevention: Lessons learned for a multinational data governance framework.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
Authors: Sridevi Kundurthi, Nelson Shen, Reena Besa, Laura Bennett-Poynter, Laura Sikstrom

Harnessing Digital Health Data for Suicide Prevention and Care: A Rapid Review.
Digital Health.
Authors: Laura Bennett-Poynter, Sridevi Kundurthi, Dan W. Joyce, Andrey Kormilitzin, Nelson Shen, James Sunwoo, Patrycja Szkudlarek, Lydia Sequiera, Laura Sikstrom.'

Co-Designing an Electronic Health Record Derived Digital Dashboard to Support Fair-AI Applications in Mental Health. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
Authors: Patrycja Szkudlarek, Iman Kassam, Stefan Kloiber, Marta Maslej, Sean Hill, Laura Sikstrom

2025

Predictive care: a protocol for a computational ethnographic approach to building fair models of inpatient violence in emergency psychiatry
BMJ Open.
Authors: Sikstrom, L., Maslej, MM., Findlay, Z., Strudwick, G., Hui, K., Zaheer, J., Hill, SL., Buchman, D.Z.

2023

Out with AI, in with the psychiatrist: a preference for human-derived clinical decision support in depression care.
Translational Psychiatry.
Authors: Maslej, MM., Kloiber, S., Ghassemi, M., Yu, J., Hill, S.

Conceptualising fairness: three pillars for medical algorithms and health equity.
BMJ Health & Care Informatics.
Authors: Sikstrom, L., Maslej, MM, Hui, K., Findlay, Z., Buchman, DZ., Hill, S.

2022

2021

Tutorials

Intersectionality in Mental Health Care - Example Notebook.
FairLearn Python.
Authors: Wang, Y., Maslej, MM., Sikstrom, L.

2022

Talks

AI & Health Equity: Navigating the challenges of human-AI teaming in healthcare
Best Practices in Education Rounds (BPER), Centre for Faculty Development, The Wilson Centre, and the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education. October 14, 2025.
Presenters: Dr. Laura Sikstrom & Dr. Marta Maslej

2025

Fairness and Health Equity: An intersectional approach to model construction and evaluation in mental health care.
Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics School. August 24, 2022.
Presenters: Dr. Laura Sikstrom & Dr. Marta Maslej

2022

What is ‘AI’ and what is it doing in psychiatry?
CAMH Patient and Family Learning Space. December 15, 2022.
Presenters: Dr. Laura Sikstrom, Dr. Nelson Shen, Renee Rosenmann, & E.M. Glasspool