Dr. Ellen Lipman is a child psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus in the Division of Child Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University. She was previously Chief of the Department of Child Psychiatry at McMaster Children’s Hospital. She was previously the Director of the Offord Centre for Child Studies. Her clinical work included consultation to outpatient services at the Child and Youth Mental Health Program, McMaster Children's Hospital. Dr. Lipman’s main research interests were in the areas of single-parent families, teen mothers, disadvantaged children, group therapies, effectiveness studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, and epidemiology.
