Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos is a senior scientist with the General Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems Division at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is also a full professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
She has served in several administrative roles, including vice-chair, clinical and innovation (2017-2022) and co-Director of the Division of Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems (2012-2017) in the Department of Psychiatry, as well as physician-in-chief at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (2016-2022), psychiatrist-in-chief at St. Michael’s Hospital (2011-2016) and medical director, Inner City Health Associates (2017-2011).
Dr. Stergiopoulos completed her medical training at Dalhousie University and residency training in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She holds a MHSc in health administration from the University of Toronto’s Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and completed director’s education training at the Rotman School of Management.
Areas of Research
Dr. Stergiopoulos’ research has focused on interventions to improve housing and health outcomes, service coordination and social inclusion for adults with serious mental illness. She had a leadership role in the At Home/Chez Soi study, the largest multisite randomized trial of Housing First, and has had research funding support through the Ontario Ministry of Health, Health Canada, and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.
Her current research areas of focus include:
- typologies and quality of housing for adults with complex support needs
- the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions aiming to improve housing and health outcomes for people experiencing serious mental health and addiction challenges, and
- collaborative care models in mental health.
Co-production with people with lived experience informs every aspect of her research, from design to dissemination.
Publications
View Dr. Stergiopoulos’ publications on PubMed.