David Gratzer, MD, FRCPC
Dr. David Gratzer is a Toronto-based psychiatrist and physician. He works at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, where he is an attending psychiatrist, and serves as the co-chief of the General Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems Division, overseeing the clinical and academic work of 100+ psychiatrists. He is also the CPPD site coordinator. Previously, he worked at the Scarborough and Rouge Hospital, where he was the physician-in-charge of mental health inpatient services, and was the physician co-lead for consultation-liaison services.

He is active in education and recently won the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine’s Ivan Silver Innovation Award. He has been nominated 10 times for University of Toronto teaching awards. He is a founding member of the national editorial board of CAMH’s Portico and served on the OMA’s Section on Psychiatry Executive. He peer reviews for several journals, including CMAJ, and he sits on the editorial board of JMIR Mental Health and The British Journal of Psychiatry; he is an associate editor of The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

Dr. Gratzer writes widely. His articles have been published in The Globe and Mail and Maclean’s. He is the author of two books and the editor of a third. His first book was awarded the Donner Prize in 2000.

His research interests include psychiatry and technology; he does CIHR-funded work on e-therapies.

Catherine Hickey, MD, MMEd, FRCPC
Dr. Catherine Hickey has more than 15 years of experience as a clinician, educator and researcher. As a geriatric psychiatrist at the Miller Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, she cares for a population amongst the oldest in Canada, bringing a unique perspective on mental health care for an aging population and their carers.

A graduate of the Memorial University of Newfoundland’s (MUN) medical school in 1999, she completed psychiatry residency at Dalhousie University in 2004, followed by a one-year fellowship in psychosomatic medicine at Harvard University’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 2014, she completed a certificate, diploma, and master’s degree in medical education at the University of Dundee.

Dr. Hickey is an associate professor at Memorial, where she teaches along the age continuum. She is currently head of the division of geriatric psychiatry at Eastern Health and the program director of the geriatric psychiatry subspecialty residency program at Memorial. She is a RCPSC board examiner for both general and geriatric psychiatry and was actively involved with the College’s Competency by Design committees for both general and geriatric psychiatry.

She has authored several peer-reviewed papers as well as the textbook, Understanding Davanloo’s Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy.