CPA - yaren

February 04, 2012

Stanley Yaren, MD, FRCPC
Director, Adult Forensic Psychiatry Program, Manitoba and Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Deputy Clinical Head, Mental Health Program, Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Dr Stanley Yaren specializes in Forensic Psychiatry, a branch of psychiatry concerned with the intersection of mental illness and the law.

He is the Director of the Adult Forensic Psychiatry Program for Manitoba and the Winnipeg Region Health Authority and serves as the Deputy Clinical Head of the Mental Health Program of the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre. Since 1987, under Dr. Yaren’s leadership, Manitoba’s Adult Forensic Program has grown from a bare bones operation with one psychiatrist and a few staff into an active teaching program with a research component and an expanded clinical base that includes a multidisciplinary team with five psychiatrists.

Born and raised in Winnipeg’s North End, Dr Yaren completed his medical doctorate in 1972 and his psychiatry training in 1976 at the University of Manitoba, where he is presently an Associate Professor of Psychiatry.

In addition to his teaching and his criminal and correctional forensic work, Dr Yaren has a consulting practice with an interest in psychiatric disability, employment issues and personal injury litigation. He has been qualified as an expert by courts in several jurisdictions in personal injury litigation and employment related matters. He serves as a consultant to unions, several insurance companies and disability plans, the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba and law enforcement agencies. He is a consultant to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police “D Division” Crises Negotiation Team. Dr Yaren has extensive experience in working with First Nations people and is on the panel of experts for the Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat.

Dr Yaren has long been involved in organized psychiatry. He is the immediate past president of the Manitoba Psychiatric Association (2006 – 2008) and has twice served as the Manitoba member of the CPA Council of the Provinces. His term as CPA President (2009-2010) marks his second stint on the CPA Board of Directors on which he served in the mid-1990s as the Manitoba representative. Dr Yaren is also a past executive member of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and a former member of both the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's Psychiatry Specialty Committee and the RCPSC Examination Board.