Dr. Olivia MacLeod, MD, FRCPC, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa and an outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). As Medical Director of CHEO’s Mental Health Outpatient Services and the Division Chief of Community Psychiatry, she leads a large team of Psychiatrists, Pediatricians, Nurse Practitioners and allied health clinicians providing care under multiple tertiary care Mental Health programs.
Dr. MacLeod is the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CACAP) Liaison to the Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS), a role which involves providing psychiatric expertise to Pediatrician leaders from across Canada, with the purpose of creating practice guidelines and Policy Statements on mental health topics relevant to pediatric primary care. She has recently co-authored a CPS statement entitled “Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders: guidance on assessment and management for paediatric health care providers” (Paediatrics & Child Health, 2024, in press).
Dr. MacLeod is an investigator with the CHEO Research Institute and the recipient of multiple research grants centered around the provision of outpatient mental health care and community collaboration. She has completed extensive training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy from the Linehan Institute in New York, and has presented her research on adaptations of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for adolescents and their caregivers at National and International meetings of Paediatric, Personality Disorder and Psychiatric Societies. Current projects include a study exploring the effect of social prescribing on youth waiting for Mental Health services at CHEO (SPARK) and a multi-site study based at CAMH examining the trajectory of mental health co-morbidities as youth progress into young adulthood (CALM study).
Outside of medicine, Olivia enjoys singing in a local women’s a cappella group, playing cello, baking and travelling with her husband and 2 boys.
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