Chu | Psychiatry | School of Medicine

Dr. Elvina Chu BSc(Hons), MBBS, FRCPsych, PhD

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Associate Professor

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166 Brock St., Kingston, ON K7L 2V7

Dr Elvina Chu graduated from Guy's and St Thomas' Medical Schools, University of London, England. She completed the Maudsley training scheme gaining Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2005 and FRCPsych in 2023. She gained her PhD following a research fellowship at University College London, Institute of Neurology and has a specialist interest in neuropsychiatry. Following a brief period as general adult psychiatrist in inner city London, Dr Chu developed community neuropsychiatry services, managed in-patient brain injury services, a dementia unit and became Lead Clinician for a national Huntington's disease (HD) service.

During an elected term on the executive committee for the Faculty of Neuropsychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists UK she set up the movement disorders working group and worked with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, in addition to the All-Party Parliamentary Groups for Multiple Sclerosis and HD. She was on the University of Birmingham, Neuropsychiatry MSc examinations committee and has extensive teaching experience.

Dr Chu relocated to Canada in 2017 and enjoys the active, outdoor lifestyle and indulging in winter sports. She joined Queen's in 2019 after a visiting scholar post at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. As staff psychiatrist at KHSC she works in consultation liaison psychiatry, has set up neuropsychiatry clinics. As an active and enthusiastic educator, she launched a neuropsychiatry training day for residents, lectures in neurosciences at Queen's University and supervises undergraduate and grad student projects. She was elected treasurer for the International Neuropsychiatric Association in 2024, is Program Director for the neuropsychiatry fellowship and CME Co-chair. Her research group is investigating HD and neurorehabilitation with an emphasis on music-based therapies.

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