Chetana Kulkarni

Title: Medical Director, Mental Health Access Program

Designations: MD, FRCPC

Phone: 416-813-6600

Alternate Contact Name: Hiba Michael

Alternate Phone: 416-813-7529

Alternate Email: hiba.michael@sickkids.ca

U of T Positions: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Hospital Positions

Education Lead, TeleLink Mental Health Program

Physician Peer, Peer Support Program

Research Positions

U of T positions

Resident Advisor, Department of Psychiatry

Director, Continuing Professional Development, Division of Child & Youth Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry

Biography

Dr. Kulkarni is a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist with experience providing care to infants, children, youth and their families in both hospital and community-based settings. Currently her clinical work is primarily within the SickKids Acute Impatient program. She is also the Medical Director the SickKids Mental Health Access Program (MHAP) and the Education Lead for the TeleLink Mental Health Program at SickKids. At the University of Toronto, she is the Director of Continuing Professional Development for the Division of Child & Youth Mental Health and the Resident Advisor for the Department of Psychiatry. She is involved in teaching, supervising and mentoring medical students, residents and fellows. She has an interest in physician health and is a member of the SickKids Peer Support Program team.

Research

Primary research interests: education about telepsychiatry/virtual care, physician health..

Education and experience

2008–2012: Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Psychiatry, McMaster Children’s Hospital, Hamilton, ON
2008–2016: Consulting Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Inner City Health Associates, Toronto, ON
2011–2012: Consulting Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Health for All Family Health Team, Markham Stouffville Hospital, Markham, ON
2011–2016: Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, George Hull Centre for Children & Families, Toronto, ON
2011–present: Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, TeleLink Mental Health Program, SickKids, Toronto, ON
2016–present: Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, SickKids, Toronto, ON

Achievements

2012–2020: Ontario & Nunavut Regional Representative, Board of Directors, Canadian Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2018: Paul Steinhauer Award for Best Postgraduate Teacher in Child & Youth Mental Health - University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry
2019: Association for Academic Psychiatry Early Career Development Award

TeleLink Mental Health Program

Psychiatry