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David S. Goldbloom, MD, FRCPC
Senior Medical Advisor, Education and Public Affairs, Centre
for Addiction and Mental Health; Professor of Psychiatry, University
of Toronto
Dr. Goldbloom was born in Montreal in 1953 and raised in Quebec and
Nova Scotia. He completed an honours undergraduate degree, majoring
in Government, at Harvard University and then attended the University
of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he obtained an M.A. in Physiological
Sciences. He trained in medicine and psychiatry at McGill University
and then spent three years as a Medical Research Council Centennial
Fellow in the Program for Eating Disorders at The Toronto Hospital under
the supervision of Dr. Paul Garfinkel. From 1985 to 1993, he was a staff
psychiatrist at The Toronto Hospital where he worked on a general psychiatry
inpatient unit and directed outpatient schizophrenia clinics. From 1989
to 1993, he was the Director of Fellowship Training in Psychiatry at
the University of Toronto. From 1993 -1998, he was Head of the newly
created Division of General Psychiatry within the Department of Psychiatry
at the University of Toronto. In 1995, he became Vice President, Medical
Affairs and Chief of Staff at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. In
1998, he was appointed inaugural Physician-in-Chief of the newly created
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health resulting from the merger of
the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, the Addiction Research Foundation,
Queen Street Mental Health Centre, and the Donwood Institute. Upon completion
of his term in 2003, he was appointed Senior Medical Advisor, Education
and Public Affairs, at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. In addition
to his clinical and research activities, he has been active as a teacher
within the Faculty of Medicine and in 1991 and 1995 was selected as
one of the two outstanding teachers in the entire Faculty by the graduating
medical class. He received the Department of Psychiatry’s Robin
Hunter Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Education in 1989 and the
Abraham Miller Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education in 2000.
In 1997, he was elected as a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the
University of Toronto. In 1998, he was elected to the American College
of Psychiatrists. In 2001, he received the Council Award of the Ontario
College of Physicians and Surgeons, awarded annually to four outstanding
physicians in the province. He also serves on the Board of Directors
of The Glenn Gould Foundation, an organization dedicated to the furthering
of music and communication in the spirit of Glenn Gould. He is the author
of a number of scientific articles and book chapters related to eating
disorders and general psychiatry; he has lectured extensively on a variety
of related topics.
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