Dr. Abdelaziz M Thabet is a Professor at York University, Center for Refugee Studies, Canada. He is a President of Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Child Health Research Group LTD, Canada.  He received his Ph.D. in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Medical School- University of Leicester, 2003, UK. He has more than thirty-five years of multi-discipline experience in the field of community mental health. He was running the clinical setting in Gaza city and was seeing adults and children victims of trauma and political violence.  He also studied patients in different departments in the hospitals such as End Stage Renal Failure, Cancer patients both in children and adult departments.

Dr. Abdelaziz M Thabet received 'The Best Researcher' award in 2017. He published more than 170 articles in different Journals. He is a member of Institutional, National, or International Scientific Advisory Boards and Conference Committees. He also serves as Editorial Board member and reviewer for various peer-reviewed journals and has numerous publications. He served as internal examiner and External examiner in Thesis and Oral Examination Committees.

Dr. Abdelaziz M Thabet's main interest is the impact of stress and trauma on children and adults and the coping as medication factor and resilience as the outcome.