Congratulations to Clinical Professor Dr. Harry Karlinsky who has received the 2024 Paul Patterson Innovation in Education Leadership Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Association!
The Paul Patterson Innovation in Education Leadership Award is presented annually to a psychiatric educator, who, in responding to change or leading in new directions, makes a significant innovative contribution to undergraduate, postgraduate, continuing professional or public education. As such, Dr. Karlinsky has been recognized for his innovative integration of the creative arts with mental health education and advocacy to engage fellow clinicians, health-care providers, and broader audiences including patients, their families and the general public. Through this unique approach he has educated a wide audience about psychiatric concepts and has been instrumental in facilitating mental health discussions that create awareness and help dispel widely held stigmatizing misconceptions about mental illness.
Dr. Karlinsky is the Series Director of Frames of Mind, a monthly film series promoting professional and community education on issues pertaining to mental health and illness, and has been a member of the UBC Department of Psychiatry for over 30 years. He has a longstanding commitment to professional and public education and has presented nationally and internationally on topics ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to information technology to narrative medicine to PTSD and to the use of films in health care education.