Dr. Trevor Hart, C.Psych.

Biography

Dr. Trevor Hart is the Director of the HIV Prevention Lab and Director of TMU’s new HOPE Centre for Gender and Sexual Minority People: the first and only Centre in Canada dedicated to combining health research aimed at understanding disparities in sexual and gender minority health, with the identification, testing, and implementation of counseling and other practice solutions for better health outcomes.

Currently, he is conducting a CIHR-funded randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating a new HIV prevention intervention designed to reduce HIV risk, social anxiety, and problematic substance use among gay, bisexual, queer, and other men who have sex with men (GBM). This ongoing study is called Sexual Confidence.

Dr. Hart is also a Site PI of the CIHR-funded Engage cohort study, which involves researchers in HIV prevention and community-based organizations across Canada. This project is a longitudinal study of prevalent and recent infections of HIV and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) among 2,100 GBM in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. Recently, the Engage team received CIHR funding to conduct a new study on how biomedical treatments for bacterial sexually transmitted infections are changing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections and related sexual behaviours among GBM.

Dr. Hart received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Temple University. After graduate school, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine, through which he received training at the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He then worked for four years as an Assistant Professor at York University before joining the Department of Psychology at Ryerson in 2007.  He has received several awards for his advancements to research and clinical work, including membership in the College of New Scholars, Arts, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), a Toronto Metropolitan University Social Innovation and Action Research Award, and membership in the international Sigma Xi Honor Society of scholars and scientists.

 

Selected Publications

Sang, J. M., Gholamian, B., Wang, L., Barath, J., Noor, S. W., Lachowsky, N. J., Hart, T. A., Cox, J., Lambert, G., Grace, D., Skakoon-Sparling, S., Lal, A., Parlette, A., Apelian, H., Jollimore, J., Hogg, R., & Moore, D. M. (2023). Examining differential success in recruitment using Respondent driven sampling (RDS) in a multi-site study of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. BMC Medical Research Methodologies.

Sang, J. M., Wang, L., Moore, D. M., Barath, J., Lal, A., Hart, T. A., Skakoon-Sparling, S., Noor, S. W., Chown, S., Lambert, G., Cox, J., Jollimore, J., Parlette, A., Apelian, H., Grace, D., & Lachowsky, N. J. (2023). Examining Associations Between Resilience and PrEP Use Among HIV-negative GBM in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. AIDS and Behavior, 27(6), 1-13.

Hart, T.A., Noor, S.W., Berlin, G.W., Skakoon-Sparling, S.,  Tavangar, F., Tan, D., Lambert, G., Grace, D., Lachowsky, N.J., Jollimore, J., Sang, J., Parlette, A., Lal, A., Apelian, H., Moore, D., & Cox, J. (2023). Pre-exposure prophylaxis and bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among gay and bisexual men. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 99, 167-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2021-055381

Grey, C., Sinno, J., Zhang, H., Daroya, E., Skakoon-Sparling, S., Klassen, B., Lessard, D., Hart, T. A., Cox, J., Stewart, M., & Grace, D. (2023). Queering Public Health: A Critical Examination of Healthcare Access and Gender Expression among Tranithe s, Nonbinary, and Other Gender Nonconforming People during COVID-19. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/6676318

Hart, T. A., Noor, S. W., Tavangar, F., Berlin, G. W., Skakoon–Sparling, S., Tan, D. H., Lambert, G., Grace, D., Jollimore, J., Sang, J. M., Kirschbaum, A. L., Kanji, R., Apelian, H., Cox, J., Moore, D. M., & Lachowsky, N. (2023). Crystal methamphetamine use and bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among gay, bisexual and other sexual minority men in Canada. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 242, 109718.

Skakoon–Sparling, S., Card, K. G., Novick, J. R., Berlin, G. W., Lachowsky, N. J., Adam, B., Brennan, D. J. Sang, J. M., Noor, S. W., Cox J., Moore, D. M., Grace, D., Grey, C., Daroya, E., & Hart, T. A. (2022). The relevance of communal altruism for sexual minority men in contemporary contexts. Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22923 

Alvarado, B. E., Martinez–Cajas, J. M., Adam, B. D., & Hart, T. A. (2021). Effectiveness of an HIV prevention program for immigrant Latino men who have sex with men in Canada: Results of a pilot study. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 30(3), 318–328. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjhs.2020–0054

Skakoon–Sparling, S., Berlin, G., Lachowsky, N. J., Moore, D., Lambert, G., Cox, J., Grace, D., Apelian, H., Sang, J. M., & Hart, T. A. (2021). Social support and HIV prevention behaviors among urban HIV–negative gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. PsyArXiv Preprints, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nh4g5

Grewal, R., Deeks, S. L., Hart, T. A., Cox, J., De Pokomandy, A., Grennan, T., Lambert, G., Moore, D., Brisson, M., Coutlée, F., Gaspar, M., George, C., Grace, D., Jollimore, J., Lachowsky, N. J., Nisenbaum, R., Ogilvie, G., Sauvageau, C., Tan, D. H. S., & Yeung, A. (2021). Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake among a community–recruited sample of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in the three largest cities in Canada from 2017 to 2019. Vaccine, 39(28), 3756–3766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.05.031

Hart, T. A., Moore, D. M., Noor, S. W., Lachowsky, N., Grace, D., Cox, J., Skakoon–Sparling, S., Jollimore, J., Parlette, A., Lal, A., Apelian, H., Sang, J. M., Tan, D. H. S., Lambert, G., and the Engage Study Team. (2021). Prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections, and related preventive and risk behaviours, among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver: Results from the Engage Study. Canadian Journal of Public Health, Publish Ahead of Print, 1–10. https://10.17269/s41997–021–00546–z

Alvarado, B., Camargo, P., Martinez Cajaz, J. L., Adam, B., & Hart, T. A. (in press). Effectiveness of a prevention program for immigrant Latino men who have sex with men in Canada: Results of a Pilot Study. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. 

Hart. T. A., Sharvendiran, R., Chikermane, V., Kidwai, A., & Grace, D. (2021). At the intersection of homophobia and racism: Sociocultural context and the sexual health of South Asian Canadian gay and bisexual men. Stigma and Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000295

Alvarado, B., Martinez Cajaz, J. L., Mueses, H., Correa, D., Adam, B., & Hart, T. A. (2021). Adaptation and pilot evaluation of an intervention addressing the sexual health needs of gay men living with HIV infection in Colombia. American Journal of Men’s Health, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988321989916

Noor, S. W., Hart, T. A., Okafor, C. N., Ware, D., Chew, K. W., D’Souza, G., Ho, K., Friedman, M. R., & Plankey, M. (2021). Staying or moving: Results of a latent transition analysis examining intra–individual stability of recreational substance use among MSM in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study from 2004 to 2016. Drug and Alcohol Dependence,220, 108516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108516 (external link) 

Hart, T. A., Noor, S. W., Skakoon–Sparling, S., Lazkani, S. N., Gardner, S., Leahy, B., Maxwell, J., Julien, R., Simpson, S., Steinberg, M., & Adam, B. D. (2020). GPS: A randomized controlled trial of sexual health counselling for gay and bisexual men living with HIV. Behavior Therapy, 52(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2020.04.005

Noor, S. W., Sutherland, J., Vernon, J. R. G., Adam, B. D., Brennan, D. J., & Hart, T. A. (2020). Measuring adverse childhood experiences: comparing individual, composite, score–based, and latent profile–based scoring schemas among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Archives of Sexual Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508–020–01719–6

Hart T. A., Noor S. W., Vernon J., Antony M. M., Gardner S., & O’Cleirigh C. (2019). Integrated cognitive–behavioral therapy for social anxiety and HIV/STI prevention for gay and bisexual men: A pilot intervention trial. Behavior Therapy, 51(3), 503–517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2019.09.001

Hart, T. A., Stratton, N., Coleman, T. A., Wilson, H. A., Simpson, S. H., Julien, R. E., … & Adam, B. D. (2016). A pilot trial of a sexual health counseling intervention for HIV-positive gay and bisexual men who report anal sex without condoms. PLoS ONE, 11(4): e0152762. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152762 

Smith, N. G., Hart, T. A., Moody, C., Willis, A. C., Faaborg-Andersen, M., Blais, M., & Adam, B. (2016). A cognitive-behavioral group intervention to reduce HIV risk behaviors among HIV-negative young gay and bisexual men. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 23, 398-411. doi:10.1016/j.cbpra.2015.08.006

Hart, T. A., Willis, A. C., Simpson, S. H., Julien, R. E., Hoe, D., Leahy, B., … Adam, B. D. (2015). Gay Poz Sex: A sexual health promotion intervention for HIV-positive gay and bisexual men. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2015.11.002

Hart, T. A., Rotondi, N. K., Souleymanov, R., & Brennan, D. (2015). Psychometric properties of the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale among Canadian gay and bisexual men of color. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 2, 470-481. doi:10.1037/sgd0000140

Tulloch, T. G., Rotondi, N. K., Ing, S., Myers, T., Calzavara, L. M., Loutfy, M. R., & Hart, T. A. (2015). Retrospective reports of developmental stressors, syndemics, and their association with sexual risk outcomes among gay men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1861-1867. doi: 10.1007/s10508-015-0505-5   

Hart, T. A., Mustanski, B., Ryan, D. T., Gorbach, P. M., Stall, R. D., Surkan, P. J., & Plankey, M. (2015). Depression and sexual dysfunction among HIV-positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with men: Mediation by use of antidepressants and recreational stimulants. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 399-409. doi: 10.1007/s10508-014-0279-1 

Hart, T. A., Tulloch, T. G., & O’Cleirigh, C. (2014). Integrated cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety and HIV prevention for gay and bisexual men. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 21, 149-160. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2013.07.001

 

Professional Affiliations

Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies

Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) – also CPA’s Sections on Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

International AIDS Society

Canadian Association for HIV Research

Ontario HIV Treatment Network

International Academy of Sex Research