There are many accomplishments and achievements of note that reflect well both on the department and the Hospital. These include the following:

• Dr. Rex Kay was awarded a Wightman-Berris Academy Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Education.
• Dr. Sian Rawkins was awarded the Association for Academic Psychiatry Junior Faculty Development Award
• Dr. Lesley Wiesenfeld was awarded the American Psychiatric Association Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents, reflecting her outstanding achievements in Postgraduate Education.
• Dr. Molyn Leszcz won the 2009 Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy for his role in chairing the Science to Services Task Force that produced the American Group Psychotherapy Association Clinical Practice Guidelines for Group Psychotherapy
• Dr. Bruce Ballon assumed responsibilities as the Associate Director for Education Scholarship and Simulation in The Network of Excellence in Simulation of Clinical Teaching and Learning (NESCTL), creating a unique platform for Dr. Ballon’s expertise in simulation, innovative audiovisual and media technologies for enhancing education and training. NESCTL is a joint venture of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network, which includes the University of Toronto Health Science faculties and the ten academic hospitals fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, along with the Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences. 
• The Mount Sinai Community and Mental Health Program was a recipient of the Karen McGibbon Award, representing outstanding clinical care provided by this unique ethnoculturally responsive assertive community mental health treatment team.
• Julie Hahn - Occupational Therapist in the Department of Psychiatry was awarded a Karen McGibbon Award for Excellence in Humanitarian Behaviour.
• Rachel Kronick, resident in Psychiatry was awarded the Ann Thompson Award for Best Resident Presentation at the annual Ontario Psychiatric Association conference held in Toronto in January. Her presentation, along with a colleague, Dr. Priya Raju was entitled, “Dispatches from Across the Mirror: Dialogue between Psychiatry Residents and Consumer/survivors.
• Zindel Segal has been appointed as a Membre d'Honneur de l'Association Francaise de Mindfulness and as a Membre Associe Etranger de la Societe Medico-Psychologique de France for his outstanding contributions to the treatment of depression and the application of Mindfulness Based interventions. This is a unique award, rarely awarded to scientists outside of France.
• The journal, Ars Medica, produced by the Department of Psychiatry under the leadership of Drs. Rex Kay, Allan Peterkin, Ron Ruskin, Allison Crawford and Liz Konigshaus, was the recipient of a Canada Council Grant for their production of this remarkable journal, bridging between Medicine and the Humanities. This is the second Canada Council Grant for the Arts awarded to this journal.
• Ariel Dalfen published a book targeting young mothers and their families, entitled “When Baby Brings the Blues”.
• The Mount Sinai Hospital Inpatient Unit became the first program in the hospital to provide a placement in interprofessional education and has been recognized for its leadership in the Interprofessional Education Program.
• The Consultative Program to the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, led by Drs. Clare Pain, Lisa Andermann and Debra Stein, was noted in the recent external accreditation as one of three leading practices in our hospital. 
• Clare Pain has assumed responsibilities, leading the University of Toronto Health Sciences Programs in providing education, training and support to our colleagues in Ethiopia at Addis Ababa University with her development of the Toronto Addis Ababa Collaborative Consortium.
• In October, as a direct result of the generous support of the Cyril and Dorothy Reitman and Joel and Jill Reitman Families, our department opened the Cyril and Dorothy, Joel and Jill Reitman Centre for Alzheimer’s Support and Training, the first of its kind in Canada. This innovative program will provide intensive education, support and skill training for family caregivers providing care to family members with Alzheimer’s and related dementias.  One of the highlights of this intensive training program is the use of standardized patients to provide skill in a hands-on fashion to participants dealing with the common challenges that arise in the care of loved ones with a dementing illness. 

The Program in Geriatric Psychiatry, let by Dr. Joel Sadavoy, received a grant from the Toronto Central LHIN to develop an innovative Senior Mental health and Addiction project aimed at improving care provided to seniors with mental health concerns presenting to Emergency Rooms in the Toronto Central LHIN and beyond. This involves comprehensive assessment, staff development and training, and will contribute to improved care and reduced wait times in the Emergency Room.