Adrienne Tan MD FRCPC FACLP FCPA

Biography

Dr. Adrienne Tan is a clinician, mother, and educator in the Department of Psychiatry. She completed psychiatry residency training at the University of Toronto and a fellowship in C-L Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She practices C-L Psychiatry at the University Health Network, where she is the Medical Lead of the Division of Medical Psychiatry, providing psychiatric care to complex medically ill patients. She is also the Director, General Psychiatry Residency Program. She is passionate about teaching and lifelong learning and has advanced education and clinical care through a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate curricular initiatives. She is looking forward to implementing an Area of Focused Competence in C-L Psychiatry after stewarding a successful national initiative for discipline recognition. She is the proud mother of two girls, ages 11 and 9, for whom she has tried to be their point B.

Quote from the Winner

Here is a secret hidden in plain sight: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.
– Parker J. Palmer, The Heart of the Teacher

About the Award

This award, also established in 2003, recognizes outstanding contributions of faculty members who demonstrate excellence in teaching and serve as mentors and advocates to postgraduate medical trainees. The award may acknowledge continuous or long- term excellence in instruction, career counseling, promotion of collegiality, or role modeling for postgraduate trainees.