Dr. Abel Ickowicz

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Abel Ickowicz, MD, FRCPC.

Dr. Ickowicz was born in Costa Rica. He graduated with high distinction from the University of Costa Rica's medical school in 1978 and completed his Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry training in Toronto in 1986. He and has been on staff at The Hospital for Sick Ickowicz is Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Sickkids and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.

Dr. Ickowicz' research interests include behavioural genetics, characterization of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder phenotype, evaluation of long term effects of medication use in children, and the study of risk factors in early and very early onset psychotic disorders, He is the co-author of the ADHD chapter in the Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry. Dr. Ickowicz was the recipient of the 2004 Sick Kids Postgraduate Psychiatry Teaching Award, is a member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry and the Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is currently serving as elected Ontario Representative to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Abel Ickowicz

Paul Daniel Arnold, MD, FRCPC, Abel Ickowicz, MD, FRCPC, Shirley Chen, MD, MPH, Russell Schachar, MD, FRCPC

Abel Ickowicz

Dr. Abel Ickowicz, M.D., FRCPCDr. Ickowicz is the Deputy Psychiatrist-in-Chief at The Hospital for Sick Children and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.He is Head, Neuropsychiatry Team whose primary clinical interests include disorders of attention, learning, impulse control, and cognition.He is one of the authors of the ADHD chapter in the recent edition of the Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry.

Dr. Abel Ickowicz, M.D. F.R.C.P. (C)Head of the Neuropsychiatry Team the Hospital for Sick Children:Dr. Ickowicz will be covering how ADHD manifests, is diagnosed and should be treated.He will be covering what is now available in medication and what is on the horizon.

Hosted by Dr. Abel Ickowicz, the award presentation was attended by the Honourable Mary Anne Chambers, Minister of Children and Youth Services, whose ministry funds the Telepsychiatry Program, as well as SickKids President and CEO Mary Jo Haddad.

I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Abel Ickowicz has been appointed Psychiatrist-in-Chief at The Hospital for Sick Children.Dr. Ickowicz has been interim Psychiatrist-in-Chief since 2004 and previously served as Deputy Psychiatrist-in-Chief from 1999-2004.In addition he is an Associate Member, School of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto and is a consultant psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.He recently has been nominated by the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to Health Canada's Paediatric Expert Advisory Committee.Dr. Ickowicz is an accomplished clinician administrator, a successful scientist and a leading educator in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.On behalf of the Department of Psychiatry, I would like to congratulate him on this important appointment, to thank him for assuming a challenging administrative role and to wish him success and satisfaction in his new position.