Joel Sadavoy, MD
FRCP(c)
(Canada), President-Elect
Joel Sadavoy is professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, psychiatrist-in-chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, inaugural chairholder of the Sam and Judy Pencer and Family Chair in Applied General Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto, chair of the meetings committee and incoming President-Elect of the IPA. He has been active in geriatric psychiatry nationally and internationally as the founding president of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry, a member of the board of directors of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, a consultant to the Council on Aging of the American Psychiatric Association, and a member of the IPA Board of Directors. In Toronto, he was a founding member of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and was its head from 1991 to 1993. He founded the academic department of geriatric psychiatry at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and was head of that department from 1979 to 1991.
Dr. Sadavoy is widely published. His academic interests have focused on psychotherapeutic treatment of the elderly, personality disorders in old age and service delivery to ethnocultural elders. He continues actively to teach and lecture on these subjects. He is the senior editor of Comprehensive Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry (first, second and third editions) and has contributed to many textbooks on general and geriatric psychiatry. In 1999, Dr. Sadavoy chaired IPA’s Ninth International Congress in Vancouver, where he also was a recipient of a 1999 IPA Field and Service Award.
Dr. Sadavoy has served on IPA’s Board of Directors since 1996, and currently serves as President-Elect of IPA.
He may be contacted at j.sadavoy@utoronto.ca.
Joel Sadavoy is professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, psychiatrist-in-chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, inaugural chairholder of the Sam and Judy Pencer and Family Chair in Applied General Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto, chair of the meetings committee and incoming President-Elect of the IPA. He has been active in geriatric psychiatry nationally and internationally as the founding president of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry, a member of the board of directors of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, a consultant to the Council on Aging of the American Psychiatric Association, and a member of the IPA Board of Directors. In Toronto, he was a founding member of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and was its head from 1991 to 1993. He founded the academic department of geriatric psychiatry at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and was head of that department from 1979 to 1991.