Robert Alec Ramsay
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Ramsay has worked at the Allan Memorial Institute since 1969. His principal areas of interest have been psychosomatic medicine and consultation-liaison psychiatry. He was Chief of the Consultation-Liaison Service from 1971–1988. A specialized interest in chronic pain and related somatic disorders lasted over a 20-year period, with interprofessional collaboration and research on chronic low back pain. Other involvements have included family therapy, psychoanalysis, and more recently, the use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the context of the McGill Anxiety Program. He has also been active in resident teaching and supervision and in undergraduate training in psychiatry, being the McGill coordinator from 1976–1988. From 1982–2006 he participated with others in once-monthly flights to northeastern Ontario to provide psychiatric consultations to family doctors at Mattawa General Hospital.
Research Interest
Psychiatry
