Teresa Dremetsikas is presently a program manager at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT)
She graduated as a Medical Doctor from the Faculty of Medicine in Monterrey Nuevo Leon in Mexico and has worked for the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture since the late 80’s . She has worked at the CCVT in different positions including starting as a volunteer and thereafter hired in 1987 to do frontline work including one on one assessment and counselling of clients she also worked with survivors organizing support groups. Other activities along the years have included: facilitation of training sessions for staff, internally and externally for other settlement service providing organizations. She has also provided training sessions to Immigration Department (Refugee Board, enforcement branch and even External Affairs and Visa officers.) She has been active doing presentations at conferences locally, Nationally and Internationally on the issue of Torture.
Presently she oversees the Anti-human trafficking, the Gender Base Programs and the Medical Services at the CCVT. In collaboration with staff and other managers as well as network of professionals and volunteers, she has been involved in the design, implementation on and evaluation of several Services at the Centre throughout the years.