Dr. Paula Ravitz

Paula Ravitz, MD, FRCPC, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and she holds the Morgan Firestone Psychotherapy Chair at Mount Sinai Hospital. She is Director of the Psychotherapy, Humanities and Education Scholarship Division for the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry.

She is VP-President Elect of the International Society of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (2016-7).

Her research and publications have focused on: Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT); attachment patterns of relating; and knowledge translation of evidence-supported psychotherapies.

Dr. Ravitz has won numerous educational awards. She has also led training workshops across Canada and internationally, including in Ethiopia with the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration, where she was co-investigator in the Grand Challenges-funded Biaber Project. The Biaber Project aimed to scale up screening and treatment of common mental disorders in primary care with culturally adapted IPT.

With Dr. Robert Maunder, Dr. Ravitz co-edited a 6-book/DVD series, Psychotherapy Essentials to Go, for skills-based teaching of evidence-supported psychotherapies (2013, 2015. WW Norton).