About Dr. Anthony Feinstein

Dr. Feinstein received his medical degree in South Africa. Thereafter he completed his training in Psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital in London, England, before training as a neuropsychiatrist at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square in London. His Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. Degrees were obtained through the University of London, England. He is currently a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Feinstein's research has, in part, centered on understanding how individuals may be affected psychologically by working in hostile locations. He is a widely sought after speaker at conferences on risk management and emotional wellbeing and has extensive experience in the area of psychological trauma.

In 2000-2001 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study mental health issues in post-apartheid Namibia. This led to the development of that country's first rating scale for mental illness. A similar project followed in Botswana.

Dr. Feinstein is the author of Dangerous Lives: War and the Men and Women Who Report It (Thomas Allen, Toronto 2003), The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Multiple Sclerosis (Cambridge University Press 1999, with a second edition published in 2007), Michael Rabin, America's Virtuoso Violinist (Amadeus Press, 2005) and Journalists Under Fire: the Psychological Hazards of Covering War (John Hopkins University Press, 2006). He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and has authored many book chapters.