Abraham Rudnick
Professor
Email: Abraham.rudnick@nshealth.ca
Phone: 902-460-6225
Fax: 902-465-7684
Mailing Address:
Operational Stress Injury Clinic (OSI)
100 Eileen Stubbs Avenue
Suite 210
Dartmouth, NS B3B 1Y6
Research Topics:100 Eileen Stubbs Avenue
Suite 210
Dartmouth, NS B3B 1Y6
- Bioethics
- Person-Centered Mental Health Care
- Philosophy of Health and Recovery
- Post-Traumatic Stress
- Psychiatric/Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Smart Health Technology
- Socio-Economic Factors
Related information
- CV [PDF - 882KB]
Education
- BMedSc (Hebrew University)
- MD (Hebrew University)
- MPsych (Tel Aviv University)
- PhD (Tel Aviv University)
- MCIL (York University)
- mMBA (York University)
Research interests
Professor Rudnick's interests include recovery of people with mental illness and related matters such as psychiatric/psychosocial rehabilitation and smart health technology, as well as ethics and other philosophical aspects of health care. His work is inter-professional and participatory, and involves mixed methods as well as conceptual and normative analysis.
Selected publications
- Rudnick A, Roe D (editors). Serious Mental Illness: Person-Centered Approaches. London, UK: Radcliffe, 2011.
- Rudnick A (editor). Bioethics in the 21st Century. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, 2011 (open access).
- Rudnick A (editor). Recovery of People with Mental Illness: Philosophical and Related Perspectives. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Rudnick A, Forchuk C (editors). Social Science Methods in Health Research. New Delhi, India: Sage, 2017.
- Akhtar N, Forchuk C, McKay K, Fisman S, Rudnick A. Handbook of Person-Centered Mental Health Care. Boston: Hogrefe, 2021.
Selected awards and honours
- Recovery Research Pioneer Award, Psychosocial Rehabilitation/Readptation Psychosociale Canada, 2014
- Michal Smith Research Award, Schizophrenia Society of Canada, 2015
- Distinguished Fellowship, European Society for Person Centered Healthcare, 2015
- Fellowship, Canadian Psychiatric Association, 2016
- Gold Medal, European Society for Person Centered Healthcare, 2016
- Distinguished Fellowship, Canadian Psychiatric Association, 2022
Service & Activity
- Member of the Board of Directors, Research Canada
- Inaugural Chair, Task Force on Racial and Indigenous Justice in Health Research and Related Innovation, Research Canada
- Chair, Public Policy Committee, Canadian Psychiatric Association
- Co-Chair, Policy and Health Issues Committee, Doctors Nova Scotia
- Member, Health and Public Policy Committee, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada