Board of Directors

Dr. Paul Fedoroff

Dr. Fedoroff is Director of the Sexual Behaviors Clinic of the Integrated Forensic Program of the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Care Group (ROMHCG). He is Vice-Chair of the ROMHCG Research Ethics Board. He is also Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and Cross-appointed in the University of Ottawa departments of Post-graduate studies and Criminology. In addition he has recently been re-appointed Research Unit Director for Forensic Research within the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research.

He received his medical degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1983. Following an internship he worked as a family doctor in rural Saskatchewan. He completed his residency in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in 1988 and a research fellowship in Neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1990. He finished a Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at The Clarke Institute (now CAMH) in 1991 and then became Director of the Clarke Institute Sexual Behaviors Clinic. He joined the Forensic Program at the Royal Ottawa Hospital in 2001.

His clinical and research interests are devoted to elucidation of the neurophysiologic and psychological causes of psychiatric problems. He is an international expert in the area of problematic sexual behaviors, especially those with neurologic disease or intellectual disability. He has published over 100 papers, chapters and abstracts. He has made over 200 presentations at scientific meetings. He has been widely cited by the media and frequently provides interviews to a wide variety of media including Time magazine, The New York Times, The Discovery Channel, the CBC, The London Times, the Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen.

Dr. Fedoroff’s clinical and research teams work together closely with twin aims: to prevent physical and psychological sexual harm and its sequelae; and to investigate  and champion ways to ensure the development of healthy sexuality regardless of gender, orientation, age, or disability.