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Dr. Abraham (Rami) Rudnick is a certified psychiatrist and a Ph.D.-trained philosopher. He is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the Faculty of Medicine and was the inaugural head of its Section of Community Psychiatry, and he is cross-appointed in the Department of Bioethics of the Faculty of Medicine and in the School of Occupational Therapy of the Faculty of Health, all at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was a director of the Research in Medicine program. Dr. Rudnick is also an affiliate of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University in London, Ontario. He is the Clinical Director of the Nova Scotia Operational Stress Injury Clinic at the Nova Scotia Health Authority in Canada where he practises clinical psychiatry. Dr. Rudnick has a Masters Certificate in Innovation Leadership and a mini Master of Business Administration Certificate, both from York University in Toronto, and he is a Canadian Certified Physician Executive and a Certified Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Practitioner.
Dr. Rudnick has been a member of the Board of Directors of Research Canada and the inaugural chair of its Task Force on Racial and Indigenous Justice in Health Research and Related Innovation, the chair of the Public Policy Committee of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and the co-chair of the Policy and Health Issues Committee of Doctors Nova Scotia, among other provincial and national committee memberships. He is a recipient of the pioneer award granted by Psychosocial Rehabilitation/Réadaptation Psychosociale Canada and of the Michael Smith award granted by the Schizophrenia Society of Canada, as well as a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and a Distinguished Fellow and Gold Medalist of the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare. Dr. Rudnick is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Physician Leadership and he was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mental Health as well as the founder of the first Canadian Unit of the International Network of a UNESCO chair in Bioethics Education.
Dr. Rudnick’s clinical academic and administrative expertise includes person-centered health services, psychiatric/psychosocial rehabilitation, operational stress injury, social determinants of health, digital health technology, health care administration, bioethics, and philosophy of health. His research involves mixed (quantitative, qualitative, conceptual, and normative) methods.