Renee Fitzpatrick MD, MRC Psych, FRCPC

Dr. Renee Fitzpatrick as the Assistant Dean, Student Affairs for Undergraduate Medical Education for the Queen’s School of Medicine. She began her medical training in Ireland. She earned her MB. Bch. BAO. from the National University of Ireland in 1983, and then completed training in both Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She earned her MRCPsych. in 1987. After relocating to Canada in 1991, Dr. Fitzpatrick earned her FRCPC in Psychiatry in 1992 and her FRCPC in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2013, the year that Child and Adolescent Psychiatry was officially recognized as a subspecialty in Canada.

In 1992, Dr. Fitzpatrick was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan. She joined the Department of Psychiatry at Queen’s in 2003 as an Assistant Professor, and she was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2016. She was Director of the Undergraduate Program in Psychiatry from 2004 -2014 and was instrumental in implementing significant curricular change. She presented many of these innovations at national and international conferences.

In 2014, Dr. Fitzpatrick took on the role of Director of Student Affairs for the School of Medicine, and in this position, she has made an enormous impact on the experience of students in the undergraduate medical education program. For her tremendous work in this role, she was presented with the Michael Condra Outstanding Student Service Award from Queen’s in 2017.