Le Clair | Psychiatry | School of Medicine

Dr. J. Kenneth Le Clair MD, FRCPC

Position(s)

Adjunct Professor

Dr. Le Clair is Professor and Chair of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Queen’s University and Co-Director of the Centre for Studies in Aging and Health, Providence Care, an affiliate of Queen’s University. He graduated cum laude in Medicine in 1977 from the University of Ottawa and received his Fellowship in Psychiatry in 1986.

Dr. Le Clair has had a career in the field of knowledge exchange in Geriatric Psychiatry that spans over three decades and has been recognized by the Canadian Academy for outstanding contributions to the field in 2004 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Geriatric Psychiatry in 2009 from the Canadian Academy. He has also been recognized by the International Psychogeriatric Association for Distinguished Service (Host Country).

His major interests have been in learning and development, knowledge exchange and health service delivery models for older persons with complex health care challenges with associated behavioural, mental health and cognitive disorders in terms of the development, dissemination and delivery of new knowledge to inform policy and practice.

He is the Scientific Co-Lead of the Canadian Dementia Knowledge Exchange Network (KT Division), Co-Chairs the Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange of Ontario, and is a Member of the Executive of the Seniors Health Knowledge Network for the province of Ontario.

In the field of senior mental health, he has assumed various policy research, education and service system leadership positions and engaged in policy development and related research. He was a founding Member and continues as Co-Chair of the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health and is founding Member of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Seniors’ Advisory Group. Dr. Le Clair is Senior Clinical Consultant for “P.I.E.C.E.S. Canada”, a wellrecognized learning and development program in seniors’ mental health.

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