Dr. Patrick McGrath

Dr. McGrath is a clinical psychologist, scientist and social entrepreneur. His major career goal has been to use research to improve healthcare. As VP Research, Innovation and Knowledge Translation at IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, he created the Translating Research into Care grants, a partnership amongst scientists, administrators, patients and foundations and helped found BIOTIC, a translational imaging research facility. His own research is now in digital health. He founded the not-for-profit Strongest Families Institute and won the Manning Principal award as the best innovation in Canada and the Governor General’s Innovation Award. For a decade he was chair of the Board for Strongest Families which delivers mental health care to over 13 thousand families each year across Canada. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University and a Scientist at the IWK Health Centre, an Adjunct Professor in Psychiatry at Ottawa University and visiting Professor at the University of Turku. He founded and led for over a decade the clinical psychology PhD program at Dalhousie. McGrath has published over 370 peer reviewed papers and 14 books. His h-index is 104 and he has been cited about 50 thousand times (Google Scholar). He was senior, founding, editor of the Oxford Textbook of Paediatric Pain. He has received numerous Canadian and international awards for research, mentorship, and administrative work. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2002. He remains active in research, heading several CIHR grants and in clinical work. He serves on the International Medical Advisory Board for Superhumans in Ukraine and the International Expert Advisory Committee of the Brain and Mind Institute, Aga Khan University, Nairobi/Karachi.