Elizabeth Macklin MA MD FRCP

Biography

Dr. Elizabeth Macklin completed a Master’s in Psychology in 1984 and worked in the fields of autism and learning disabilities prior to training in pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto in 1991. She studied developmental pediatrics at SickKids and at Queen’s University in Kingston. Before moving to Ottawa in 2010, Dr. Macklin had been on staff in the Department of Pediatrics at both Queen’s University and the University of Western Ontario and had served as the medical director of children’s treatment centres in Kingston and Windsor, Ontario. She now serves as the medical director of medical services at the Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre and as the division head for developmental pediatrics at the University of Ottawa. Her interests include the assessment of children with developmental and physical disabilities, medical education and research relating to the use of genetic testing.