Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: October 23, 2008
• Invested on: April 07, 2010

Paul Garfinkel is a psychiatrist, health care leader and an internationally recognized specialist in eating disorders. His textbooks and his multidimensional model of the causes of anorexia nervosa have been called landmark achievements. A professor at the University of Toronto, former head of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and founding president and CEO of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, he is known as a passionate advocate for people with mental illness. He has worked to remove the stigma surrounding these conditions, and spearheaded the innovative redevelopment of the CAMH into an urban village concept that aims to de-institutionalize patient care.