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Dr. Danielle Baribeau, clinician scientist and child psychiatrist at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

Danielle Baribeau, MD, PhD

Clinician Scientist; Psychiatrist

Research

Dr. Danielle Baribeau leads a research program focused on clinically translating genetic advances into improved mental health care in autism and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Biography

Dr. Danielle Baribeau is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with a clinical focus in autism, rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders, and psychopharmacology. She completed her PhD in clinical epidemiology and health-care research at the University of Toronto (U of T) in 2022, which focused on understanding anxiety in autism. She completed her clinical residency training in adult psychiatry, and then child and adolescent psychiatry, at U of T in 2019.  This was followed by a two-year fellowship at SickKids in consultation-liaison psychiatry, neurodevelopmental assessment, and rare genetic conditions associated with psychiatric and neurodevelopmental outcomes. She has also worked clinically at Holland Bloorview since 2020.

As a clinician scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute, she leads a research program focused on clinically translating genetic advances into improved mental health care in autism and neurodevelopmental disorders.   Dr. Baribeau also works as a child psychiatrist at Holland Bloorview’s Child Development program’s Psychopharmacology Clinic and the Autism Communication, Learning and Behaviour program.

Education & Profession

Education:

  • PhD, Clinical Epidemiology and Health-care research, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
  • MD, University of Toronto
  • BHSc (honours), McMaster University

University positions/ affiliations

  • Assistant Professor, Department fo Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
  • Assistant Professor, Associate Member, Institute of Medical Sciences, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto
  • Assistant Professor, Status-Only Appointment, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto 

Honours and Awards:

  • 2024: Academic Scholars Award- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
  • 2023: Glenda M. MacQueen Career Development Award- CIHR Institutes of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction and the Canadian Psychiatric Association
  • 2020: CIHR Doctoral Award – Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto
  • 2019: O’Brien Scholars Award – Sick Kids and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
  • 2019: Clinician Investigator Program – Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and Ontario Ministry of Health, University of Toronto
  • 2018: Queen Elizabeth II Ontario Graduate Scholarship – University of Toronto

Current Projects

  • Comparative Effectiveness of Pharmacologic Management of ADHD in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (AWARE)
  • Clinical translation of a genetic diagnosis for mental health in autism (with the POND network)
  • The RADAR study: RAre Disease Administrative Data Research (RADAR) Team: Putting the Health System Impact of Rare Diseases on the Radar
  • Psychopharmacology in children with neurodevelopmental differences and disabilities: trajectories and subgroup analysis predicting response and tolerability
  • Fluoxetine for Developmental and Neurologic Outcomes in KCNC1-Related Disorder: a single subject trial

Publications:

Contact Information:


Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, Ontario, M4G 1R8
Tel: 416-425-6220 x 3586
Email: dbaribeau@hollandbloorview.ca