Ayal Schaffer

MD, FRCPC
Associate Scientist, Psychiatrist
ayal.schaffer@sunnybrook.ca

Ayal Schaffer (MD, FRCPC) is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. He currently serves as Vice President, Research, for the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD). He is Deputy Editor of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, and sits on the Board of the Canadian Network of Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT). His research interests involve the management of bipolar disorder, as well as understanding suicide risk and prevention. His clinical work is focused on inpatients as well as an outpatient mood disorders clinic at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

  • BSc, 1992, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • MD, 1996, University of Toronto, Canada
  • 2001 Psychiatry Residency Program, University of Toronto, Canada
  • 2002 Research Fellowship, Mood Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Supervisor: Dr. Anthony Levitt, MD, FRCPC
  • Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
  • Vice President Research, International Society for Bipolar Disorders
  • Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Research Foci

  • Bipolar disorder
  • Suicide prevention

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