Professor and Labatt Family Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Adjunct Faculty, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
Senior Scientist and Shirley A. Brown Memorial Chair in Women’s Mental Health Research
Women’s College Hospital
Senior Adjunct Scientist, ICES, Toronto, Ontario
Dr. Simone Vigod, MD MSc, FRCPC is Professor and Labatt Family Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Her clinical practice is as a psychiatrist at Women’s College Hospital, one of the University of Toronto’s nine fully-affiliated academic health sciences centres where she also leads a clinical research program as a Senior Scientist and the Shirley A. Brown Memorial Chair in Women’s Mental Health Research. Dr. Vigod is a leading expert in perinatal mental health and has conducted some of the largest studies worldwide on maternal mental illness around the time of pregnancy, where mental illness poses unique risks and opportunities for mothers and their children at a critical juncture in both of their lives. Her research is helping raise awareness about gaps in access to care in this area, as well as identifying vulnerable populations where these gaps are most prominent. She also designs and evaluates novel health system interventions to improve access to and uptake of care for affected women. Her background includes an Honours BSc in Psychology from McGill University (1999), followed by an MD (2003), residency in psychiatry (2003-2009) and MSc in Clinical Epidemiology (2011) from the University of Toronto. Dr. Vigod is also a Senior Adjunct Scientist in the Mental Health and Addictions Program at ICES in Toronto, Ontario.