Mark Rapoport

MD, FRCPC
Associate scientist
mark.rapoport@sunnybrook.ca
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Phone: 416-480-5031
Fax: 416-480-5070

Research Assistant:

Lina Icaro
Phone: 416-480-5031
Fax: 416-480-5070
Email: Lina.Icaro@sunnybrook.ca

Dr. Rapoport’s research focuses on motor vehicle collisions in the elderly with neuropsychiatric illnesses.

Education

  • BA, 1992, psychology, York University, Canada
  • MD, 1995, medicine, McMaster University, Canada
  • FRCPC, 2000, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Associate scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
  • Staff psychiatrist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
  • Professor, department of psychiatry, geriatric division, University of Toronto
  • Past-president, Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry

Research Foci

  • Dementia
  • Geriatric neuropsychiatry
  • Knowledge translation
  • Motor vehicle collisions

Publications

Affiliated Labs & Programs

Selected Publications

  1. Stasiulis, E., Naglie, G., Sanford, S., Belchior, P., Crizzle, A., Gélinas, I., Mazer, B., Moorhouse, P., Myers, A., Porter, M.M., Vrkljan, B., and Rapoport, M.J. and on behalf of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging Driving and Dementia Team. Developing the Driving and Dementia Roadmap (DDR): A Knowledge-to-Action Process. International Psychogeriatrics 2023 (online)

  2. Rapoport, M.J., Chee, J.N., Prabha, T., Dow, J., Gillespie, I., Koppel, S., Charlton, J.L., O’Neill, D., Donaghy, P.C., Ho, A.O., Taylor, J-P., Tant, M. Systematic review of the risks of motor vehicle crashes associated with psychiatric disorders. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2022, 68(4), 221-40.

  3. Stasiulis, E., Rapoport, M., Sivajohan, B., Naglie, G. The paradox of dementia and driving cessation: “It’s a hot topic”, “Always on the back burner", The Gerontologist 2020, 60 (7): 1261-72.

  4. Rapoport MJ, Naglie G, Herrmann N, Zucchero Sarracini C, Mulsant BH, Frank C, Kiss A, Seitz D, Vrkljan B, Masellis M, Tang-Wai D, Pimlott N, Molnar F. Developing physician consensus on the reporting of patients with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia to transportation authorities in a region with mandatory reporting legislation. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2014;22(12):1530-43.

  5. Rapoport MJ, Weegar K, Kadulina Y, Bédard M, Carr D, Charlton J, Dow J, Gillespie I, Hawley C. Koppel S, Molnar F, Murie-Fernandez M, Naglie G, O’Neill D, McCullagh S, Shortt S, Simpson C, Tuokko H, Vrkljan B, Marshall S. An international study of the quality of national-level guidelines on driving with medical illness. QJM. doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcv038. Epub 2015 Feb 5.

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