Deanna Chaukos

Dr. Deanna Chaukos is a Consultation/Liaison psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital, and Assistant professor at the University of Toronto. She completed her MD at the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine, residency in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital/ McLean Hospital, and fellowship in Consultation Liaison psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Her clinical expertise includes psychiatric care of patients with medical complexity, and she teaches across the developmental continuum from UME to subspecialty postgraduate programs. She is a dedicated educator, and recent recipient of the AFMC Young Educators Award. Deanna engages in education scholarship that utilizes an adaptive expertise theoretical framework to understand how we effectively prepare medical learners for future uncertain practice, including how to approach ambiguity in clinical care of complex patients.

She is the Associate Program Director for the University of Toronto Psychiatry Residency, and leads portfolios including assessment, resident wellbeing, and resident leader mentorship. She has extensive experience supporting curriculum development, implementation and program evaluation efforts across diverse medical education contexts, with a focus on integration of intrinsic CanMEDS roles.