Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode is the first in a new series that we call psychiatry case rounds, where we have attending psychiatrists on the show to chat about memorable cases from their careers. Our guest today is Dr. David Gratzer is a Toronto-based psychiatrist and physician.
Dr. Gratzer works at Sinai Health, where he is an attending psychiatrist, and serves Physician-in-Chief and Senior Medical Director of the Mental Health and Addiction Program. Previously, he was the Co-chief of Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems Division at CAMH, overseeing the clinical and academic work of 100+ psychiatrists.
He is active in education, and recently won the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine’s Ivan Silver Innovation Award. He has been nominated numerous times for local, university, and national teaching awards.
He is a founding member of the national editorial board of CAMH’s Portico and served on the OMA’s Section on Psychiatry Executive. He peer reviews for several journals, including CMAJ, and he sits on the editorial board of JMIR Mental Health; he is an associate editor of The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.
Dr. Gratzer writes widely. His articles have been published in The Globe and Mail and Maclean’s. He is the author of two books and the editor of a third. His first book was awarded the Donner Prize in 2000.
His research interests include psychiatry and technology; he has done CIHR-funded work on e-therapies.
Guest: Dr. David Gratzer
Hosts: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY3), Dr. Sophie Gregoire-Mitha (PGY2), Dr. Kate Braithwaite
Audio editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY3)
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