Paul Garfinkel

DR. PAUL GARFINKEL is currently a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and staff psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He obtained his medical degree from the University of Maitoba, and following an internship at the Toronto Western Hospital, did a psychiatric residency at the University of Toronto. He was chief of psychiatry at Toronto General Hospital, the University of Toronto, and the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. He was appointed chief executive officer of CAMH in 1997 and held this position until 2009. Garfinkel is the author and editor of nine books on eating disorders. He has received many honours for his work, including Officer of the Order of Canada.