Brief Biography

Dr. De Souza is Head of the Medical Psychiatry - Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Program at the Hospital for Sick Children. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She is a Project Investigator with the Research Institute. She holds a position of Secretary-Treasurer on the Medical Staff Association Executive. She is a Recruitment Co-Chair with the Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. De Souza was born in England and raised in Toronto. She completed her studies at the University of Toronto, where she attained a Bachelor of Science degree with High Distinction, graduated from Medicine with Honours, and graduated from the Psychiatry Residency with a special focus in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She completed the Stepping Stones Teacher Training Certificate Program and the Project Planning and Management Course through the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She has been a Staff Psychiatrist at The Hospital for Sick Children since 2002.  

She sees children and adolescents with a variety of medical conditions, and provides consultation to medical and surgical wards. She consults to the Division of Hematology-Oncology, the SickKids Team Obesity Management Program (STOMP), and the 22q11 Deletion Syndrome Clinic.

Her areas of interest include: the psychiatric needs of the medically ill, education and clinician well-being. She has collaborated on courses in communication, clinician well-being, and working with challenging families. She is actively involved in education: supervising and teaching medical students, psychiatry and pediatric residents. She has presented at national and international conferences and at family education days.  She is involved in organizing and evaluating activities aimed at attracting medical students to the field of psychiatry, through activities like the Medical Student Summer Institute in Psychiatry.  

Publications

De Souza C and O Abla.  Chapter 14: Psychiatric Issues in Handbook of Supportive Care in Pediatric Oncology.  Massachusetts: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Ed: O Abla, V Breakey, LL Dupuis, and TH Truong; 2010

Andermann L, De Souza C and J Lofchy.  The Psychiatry Institute for Medical Students: More than a Decade of Success.   Academic Psychiatry Mar 2010; 34(2): 150-153.

Mian I, Gearing R, De Souza C and L Solomon.  Corticosteroid-Related Psychiatric Complications In the Treatment of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in an Adolescent.  Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2007;16(1):27-29.