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Kathleen Sheehan, MD, DPhil

Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Kathleen Sheehan is an Assistant Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry and Clinician-Investigator with the medical and inpatient psychiatry programs at the University Health Network Centre for Mental Health. 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. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry fund her research.

Dr. Sheehan advocates for system-wide improvement in the integration of physical and mental health care through medical and public education. She is Vice President and Continuing Professional Development Lead for the Canadian Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, co-lead of the Extension of Community Health Outcomes (ECHO) Integrated Mental and Physical Health Care program funded by the Ministry of Health, and member of Ontario Health’s Delirium Quality Standard Committee.

Before attending the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, she studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received a doctorate in social psychiatry and master’s degree in neuroscience. She completed her psychiatry residency training, as part of the Clinician Scientist Stream, at the University of Toronto.

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