Abraham Rudnick

Abraham (Rami) Rudnick is a certified psychiatrist and a PhD-trained philosopher. He is the Vice President of Research at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and the Chief Scientist of the Thunder Bay egional Health Research Institute, as well as a Professor of Psychiatry at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Research Professor at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences and a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, both at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian Certified Physician Executive and a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner.

Dr. Rudnick is a Senior Editor of the Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health and the founder of the Canadian Unit of the International Network of a UNESCO Chair in Bioethics. He is a recipient of the pioneer award in recovery research granted by Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR)/Réadaptation Psychosociale (RPS) Canada, a recipient of the Michael Smith research award granted by the Schizophrenia Society of Canada, and a Distinguished Fellow of the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare as well the Chair of its Mental Health Special Interest Group.

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS: Rudnick A, Roe D (eds). Serious Mental Illness: Person-Centered Approached. London: Radcliffe, 2011. Rudnick A (ed). Bioethics in the 21st Century. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech (open access), 2011. Rudnick A (ed). Recovery of People with Mental Illness: Philosophical and Related Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.