Donna Stewart

Dr. Donna Stewart is the Lillian Love Chair in Women's Health at the University Health Network and the University of Toronto. She is a Professor at University of Toronto and is appointed in the Faculty of Medicine in the Departments of Psychiatry, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Medicine, Anaesthesia, Family and Community Medicine, and Surgery. She is Director of the University Health Network Women's Health Program and her clinical work is in women's mental health and psychosomatic medicine. She is a Senior Scientist at Toronto General Research Institute and her research interests are in women's health, women's health education, women's mental health, interpersonal violence, psychological aspects of reproductive health, psychological reaction to physical illness and international health. 

Dr. Stewart is the recipient of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific research grants and has published over 250 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and 5 books. She is an Institutional Advisory Board Member of the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Gender and Health and Deputy Editor of the American Psychiatric Publishers Inc (APPI), the world's largest publisher of mental health books and journals. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and 10 other medical journals. She is immediate Past President of the International Association of Women's Mental Health. 

Dr. Stewart has made numerous presentations to local, provincial, federal, American and other international government agencies responsible for developing policy on women's health and has won numerous awards and was appointed a senior advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2007 and the 2008 CIHR/RSC Visiting Canadian Scientist to Japan.