My name is David Gratzer. I’m a psychiatrist.

This is where I work…

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This what I think about…

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This is who I think about…

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And this is my website, home of the Reading of the Week, my weekly blog on all things psychiatry.

About Dr. Gratzer…

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Dr. David Gratzer is a Toronto-based psychiatrist and physician.

He works at Sinai Health, where he is an attending psychiatrist, and serves Physician-in-Chief and Senior Medical Director of the Mental Health and Addiction Program. Previously, he was the Co-chief of Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems Division at CAMH, overseeing the clinical and academic work of 100+ psychiatrists.

He is active in education, and recently won the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine’s Ivan Silver Innovation Award. He has been nominated numerous times for local, university, and national 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; 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 has done CIHR-funded work on e-therapies.

Follow him on X (formerly Twitter): @davidgratzer.