Paul Andrew Kurdyak is a Canadian psychiatrist and highly regarded expert in mental health.
Early life and education
editBorn as Paul Andrew Kurdyak[1] he has a degree in medicine, and completed his psychiatry residency and his PhD in clinical epidemiology at the University of Toronto.[2]
Career
editKurdyak works in Toronto[3] as a psychiatrist and is the vice-president at Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence.[4] He is the Director of Health Outcomes and Performance Evaluation at the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and Medical Director of Performance Improvement at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.[5] He is an associate editor of The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.[6]
Kurdyak is a highly regarded expert in mental health[7] and an advocate for increasing and improving access to mental health care in Canada.[3] He received the Alexander Leighton Award in Psychiatric Epidemiology from the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology in 2022.[8]
Selected publications
edit- Paul Kurdyak and Sanjeev Sockalingam, How Canada fails people with mental illnesses, Ottawa Citizen, 2020
- John Cairney, Sima Gandhi, Astrid Guttmann, Karey Iron, Saba Khan, Paul Kurdyak, Kelvin Lam, & Julie Yang, Mental Health of Children and Youth in Ontario: A Baseline Scorecard, ICES, 2015[9]
References
edit- ^ "CPSO - Doctor Details". doctors.cpso.on.ca. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ^ "Paul Kurdyak". psychiatry.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ^ a b Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me, Random House Canada, 2019
- ^ "'Nurses are the front line of everything': Pandemic toll has nurses seeking counselling more than others in health care". thestar.com. 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ^ "Dr. Paul Kurdyak". CAMH. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ^ The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry - Editorial Board, Sage Journals
- ^ Goldbloom, D., Bryden, M.D., P., Bryden M. D., P. (2017). How Can I Help? A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist. United States: Touchstone. p163
- ^ Paul Kurdyak - biography, ICES
- ^ "More babies born with addictions in the north: report". CBC. 3 March 2015.