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Dr. Katharine Gillis

Dr. Katharine Gillis was appointed Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa in March 2009 after serving as Acting Chair since July 2006. She is also Clinical Director of the Shared Care Mental Health Program at the Ottawa Hospital which provides clinical services combined with education and research opportunities in the teaching units of the Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa.

Dr. Gillis is a 1982 graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland Medical School and is a former family physician. From 2004-2008, she was the Chair of the Psychiatry English Exam Board at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a member of the Working Group on a National Strategy for enhancing Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry, Canadian Psychiatric Association. Dr. Gillis has recently been appointed to the RCPSC Evaluation Committee. She was the Psychiatry Residency Training Director for the University of Ottawa from 1999-2009.