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Dr. Anthony Feinstein, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Director of the Neuropsychiatry Programme at Sunnybrook and Womenıs College Health Science Centre. Dr. Feinstein obtained his medical degree in South Africa and completed his postgraduate training in Psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Thereafter, he undertook his Ph.D. through the University of London and the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square. He leads an active research program that is funded through the Medical Research Council of Canada and other, allied grant giving agencies. His research interest focus on three main areas, namely the neuropsychiatry of multiple sclerosis and traumatic brain injury, and how individuals react to and cope with significant, often life threatening stressors. It is with respect to the latter that he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2000-2001) to study mental health issues in post-apartheid Namibia. His medical journal of wartime experiences in Namibia and Angola has recently been published. |