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Associate Professor
University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Kathleen Sheehan is a Clinician-Investigator with the medical and inpatient psychiatry programs at the University Health Network (UHN) Centre for Mental Health (CMH) and an Associate Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry. She is also Director of the Department of Psychiatry's Clinician Scholar Program.
Dr. Sheehan’s clinical and research activities focus on improving quality of care for individuals with co-occurring mental and physical health issues. She advocates for system-wide improvement in the integration of physical and mental healthcare through medical and public education. She is Vice President of the Canadian Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, co-lead of the province-wide Extension of Community Health Outcomes (ECHO) Integrated Mental and Physical Health Care educational program, and has been involved in developing quality standards and practice guidance for delirium.
Before joining UHN in 2015, Dr. Sheehan completed her residency training in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She obtained her medical degree at McMaster University in 2010. Prior to this, she completed her doctoral degree in social psychiatry (2007) and masters degree in neuroscience (2003) at the University of Oxford in England.
