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About the speaker

Dr Heath is a psychiatrist in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Dr Heath started the first intensive home treatment service in Canada-the Hazleglen Service of Grand River Hospital, Kitchener in 1989. Dr Heath wrote the first comprehensive book on home treatment, published in 2005.

As well as 18 years’ experience in home treatment, Dr Heath has wide experience, including: director of a mental health clinic, director of a general hospital psychiatric in-patient unit, an assertive community treatment team, consultant to probation/parole and prison service, a psychogeriatric ward, a psychogeriatric outreach team , private office practice and assistant clinical professor in the department of family medicine at McMaster University.

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David S. Heath, MB, ChB, FRCPC, reports that he has no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients during the past 24 months. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation.

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