Biography
Dr. Sandra Antochi is an Assistant Professor at University of Ottawa since 2004 and Physician Scientist co-investigator at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (ROHCG), Neuromodulation Unit, rTMS Clinic since 2023. Dr. Antochi has participated in over 40 publications and presentations. She has been working at The Ottawa Hospital, Royal Ottawa Mental Health Center, and Department of National Defense/Government of Canada. She has been practicing psychiatry in a variety of settings including inpatient psychiatry, outpatient psychiatry, eating disorder program (EDP), ECT service, rTMS service as well as in Canadian Armed Forces. In addition, Dr. Antochi developed expertise in CBT and DBT in groups and individual settings, for inpatients and outpatients.
Dr. Antochi is Co-Fellowship Director and Co-Founder of Fellowship in Eating Disorders at The Ottawa Hospital TOH jointly with Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) since 2022.
Dr. Antochi is Founding Faculty (2013) and Co-Chair (2023) for The University of Ottawa Simulation -Based electroconvulsive therapy ECT Course for Practitioners, Core and Advanced Concepts of ECT Practice presented annually including lecture and workshops at the University of Ottawa Simulation Center for additional training and ECT certification of practicing psychiatrists, World’s First Simulation-based ECT Course, through collaboration of University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre, University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital, and Royal Ottawa Mental Health Center.
Dr. Antochi was invited Faculty speaker for both Eating Disorders and Electro-Convulsive therapy ECT lectures at E.K. Koranyi Annual National Review Course in Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa in 2023, a yearly, intensive review of psychiatry, to help Canadian Psychiatry Residents prepare for their Royal College Exams, as well as provide an update for practicing psychiatrists.
Dr. Antochi held several administrative roles in the Department of Mental Health at the Ottawa Hospital as Head of the Division of General Psychiatry at the Ottawa Hospital from 2009-2014, Assistant Director of Mental Health Inpatient Program at the Ottawa Hospital from 2012-2017. She has been the Medical Director of the Regional Program for the Treatment of Eating Disorders (EDP), Director of the Inpatient Eating Disorders Program, Director of the Outpatient Eating Disorders Program at the Ottawa Hospital TOH as of June 2021 for a two-year term until June 2023.
Under her leadership in EDP, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care approved the proposal for expansion of services to include Eating Disorders Readiness (EDR) with the role to offer a psychoeducation, skills-based, and self-management curriculum to patients awaiting intensive services, to reduce the high risk of morbidity and mortality to patients before entering acute intensive care, to improve patient satisfaction, potentially mitigate the need for more intensive treatments for some and support outpatient community services and referring providers who provide medical monitoring to patients before receiving intensive services.
Dr. Sandra Antochi completed an Hon. B.Sc. in Biology at University of Guelph in 1994, an M.D. from University of Western Ontario in 1998, completed Psychiatry Residency at University of Ottawa in 2003, Visiting Fellowship in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation at Duke University in 2018 and Certificate in Conflict Resolution at Cornell University in 2023.