Dr. Robert Maunder

Dr. Robert Maunder is Interim Chief of the Department of Psychiatry, Head of Psychiatric Research and Chair of Health and Behaviour at Sinai Health. He is also a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Education

Dr. Maunder received his medical degree and specialty training in psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Research and writing

Dr. Maunder’s research focuses on the impact of extraordinary occupational stress on health-care workers, the impact of close personal relationships on physical health, and trauma-informed health care. His research has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada.

He is the co-author of four books and more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters describing this work. Dr. Maunder was the lead author of an Ontario COVID-19 Science Table brief on health-care worker burnout and, with Dr. Jon Hunter, wrote Damaged: Childhood Adversity, Adult Illness, and the Need for a Health Care Revolution.

Key committees

Dr. Maunder is Vice-Chair of the Sinai Health Research Ethics Board, and a Full Member of the Temerty School of Medicine’s graduate studies school, the Institute of Medical Science.

Awards

Dr. Maunder has won numerous awards for public speaking, the Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education, the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation Pierre Janet Writing Award, and was the 2023 selection for the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work Alumni Association Annual Distinguished Speakers Series.