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Gail Erlick Robinson

Gail Erlick Robinson is a professor of psychiatry and obstetrics/gynecology at the University of Toronto, and the director of the Women’s Mental Health Program at the University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. She was founding co-director of the Women’s Mental Health Program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Robinson currently is the Women’s Caucus Representative for the American Psychiatric Association. She is a clinician and has designed curricula, taught, done research, published, and acted as an expert witness on issues pertaining to women’s mental health, including domestic violence, sexual assault, the adult consequences of child sexual abuse, sexual harassment, stalking, and the abuse of patients by health care professionals and other authority figures. Her special areas of interest are the psychological aspects of women’s reproductive life, violence against women, and women and careers. She has received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada Award in the Championship category for her work in women’s mental health, and the Alexandra Symond’s Award from the American Psychiatric Association for her sustained efforts for the advancement of women. 

 

Books by Gail Erlick Robinson