Dr. Maryana Kravtsenyuk
Dr. Maryana Kravtsenyuk is a forensic psychiatrist who completed psychiatric training at the University of Alberta in 2015 and a forensic psychiatry fellowship at the University of Toronto in 2016. She holds an Associate Professor position in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta and at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. She holds active practice permits in multiple jurisdictions including Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories.
Between 2016 and July of 2023, she was an active member of the medical staff in Forensic Services at Alberta Hospital Edmonton (Alberta Health Services). While in Alberta, I was also a consultant psychiatrist at the maximum-security federal penitentiary, Edmonton Institution, and at the provincial jail, Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre; providing general psychiatric care to individuals detained in correctional facilities. She joined the Law and Mental Health program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in August 2023.
In her practice, she conducts third-party medico-legal psychiatric assessments for criminal and civil proceedings; these address issues such as criminal responsibility; fitness to stand trial; risk of violent or sexual re-offence; disability; and return to work.
Dr. Gary Chaimowitz
Head of Service, Forensic Psychiatry Program, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
Dr. Chaimowitz is a Certified Physician Executive through the American College of Physicians and has his MBA from the University of Toronto. He is vice-chair the Psychiatry Section of the Ontario Medical Association and past president of the Ontario Psychiatric Association. He chairs the Forensic Psychiatry Specialty Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and has been granted Forensic Psychiatry Founder Status. He is a past president of the Medical Staff Association of St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, is on the board of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services and on the council of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He is cochair of the Ontario Forensic Directors Group, Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and American Psychiatric Association, member of the Ontario and Nunavut Review Board and vice-chair of the Consent and Capacity Board.
