McNevin | Psychiatry | School of Medicine

Dr. Stephen McNevin BSc, MD, FRCPC

Position(s)

Assistant Professor

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Cote-Sharp Student Wellness Services, 69 Union St., Mitchell Hall Queens University, Kingston ON K7L 3N6

Dr. McNevin was the founding director of the Division of Student Mental Health at Queens University. This academic division was created on the recommendations of the Principal's Advisory Committee on Student Mental Health. The Division's mandate is to serve as a centre of excellence in the provision of innovative care and research for post secondary students in the region and beyond. Dr. McNevin stepped down from this role in July 2021 after 33 years with the Department of Psychiatry. He has stayed on now in semiretirement in an adjunct role and continues his work in student mental health providing consultation services in a shared care model and continues to participate in research and the life of the University.

The Division of Student Mental Health is housed in the Cote-Sharp Student Wellness Services site at Mitchell Hall on campus. It is there that Dr. McNevin served as the Director of the Division of Psychiatry at Student Wellness Services. The clinic is a multidisciplinary collaborative care group located at the centre of the University's campus. Virtually every student at Queens will have either direct or indirect contact with some of the programming from that service during their time at university. The Division of Psychiatry has long provided a site for training and research for residents in Family Medicine and Psychiatry. It is a setting which allows senior psychiatry residents to work with independence in a collaborative environment. The service offers residents the chance to develop expertise in the shared care/integrated care model as well as the opportunity to provide ongoing care for a select group of the most challenged patients.

Until his retirement he offered a unique training experience for senior psychiatry residents at the QHELP 2.1 clinic – the Queens Health Education Learners [Health] Program. It offered an opportunity for residents to give back to their colleagues by offering a specialized after-hours clinic dedicated to providing collaborative mental health care to health education students in medicine, nursing, occupational and physical therapy particularly for those in their clinical years.

Student Wellness Services is also the home base for the research arm of the division. UFlourish Is a multidisciplinary research group with important partnerships across the worldwide University sector. They have an ongoing collaborative research program with Oxford university in the United Kingdom as well as many sites across Canada. The group's signature project looks at the factors that contribute to student success at university using a longitudinal study that follows the progress of a large number of first-year students throughout their university careers at Queens and Oxford.

For 22 years Dr. McNevin was the psychiatrist attached to the Personality Disorder Service now known as the Chrysalis Program at Providence Care Hospital. While he formally moved on to focus on creating the Division of Student Mental Health he maintained close ties with that organization and continues to assist them in some of their teaching and community outreach.

Dr. McNevin also provided services to the Interventional Psychiatry unit at Providence Care Hospital.

Dr. McNevin had completed a Life Science degree Queens University and went on to graduate from its medical school. He completed his residency in Psychiatry and research fellowship at the University of Manitoba before going on to practice inpatient psychiatry and community outreach as well as serving as a consultant psychiatrist to the Family Medicine training program at St. Boniface Hospital at the University of Manitoba.

In 2024 the Division of Psychiatry at Student Wellness Services merged with the community based Shared Care Psychiatry group to form the Division of Shared Care and Student Health in order to strengthen the groups commitment to shared care/ collaborative care in the Primary Care setting. This newly created division is ably led by Dr. Renee Fitzpatrick.

These days you are more likely to find him on the road training for the next Jack ride. Check out jack.org. the youth led mental health advocacy group.

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