Diane McIntosh
Canada
Diane McIntosh
Canada
Expert biography
Professor Diane McIntosh is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and has a community psychiatry practice. She obtained an undergraduate degree in pharmacy before completing her medical school training, two years of a paediatric residency and then an adult psychiatry residency.
Professor McIntosh is extensively involved in providing Continuing Medical Education programmes to colleagues nationally and internationally, with a focus on rational pharmacology and the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders. Her academic lectures always come back to an essential, central theme: we must strive to improve the quality of care and the treatment options available for people diagnosed with a mental illness.
Professor McIntosh is the co-founder of SwitchRx, the online psychotropic switching tool for prescribers and pharmacists. She has her own Continuing Medical Education programme, PsychedUp, which was developed to encourage the appropriate, confident and rational prescribing of psychiatric medications. She has published blogs in Psychology Today and the Huffington Post, focussing on mental health issues, and she is the author of ‘This is Depression: A comprehensive and compassionate guide for those who want to understand depression’, which was written for anyone who wants to better understand the disorder.
EM-88825 - Date of preparation: February 2022