Dr. Nizar Ladha was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA) at its annual meeting last fall. Election to Fellowship in the CPA is an honour that rewards members of this organization for excellence in their specialty and for exemplary contributions. This honour was granted for the first time to 12 psychiatrists out of the more than 4,000 psychiatrists in practice in Canada.

Dr. Ladha was recommended by his peers in Newfoundland and the submission was independently reviewed. Dr. Ladha graduated from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, in 1972 and did his internship and residency in psychiatry at Memorial and a fellowship in forensic psychiatric at Metropolitan Toronto Forensic Service and Clarke Institute of Psychiatry.

An associate professor of psychiatry at Memorial University and a staff psychiatrist with Eastern Health, Dr. Ladha has a clinical practice in forensic and general adult psychiatry. He has appeared as an expert witness at all levels of courts in almost 500 cases in Newfoundland and Labrador, and Ontario, and he was a member of a committee of the Law Conference of Canada that developed a Uniform Mental Health Act for Canada. He has served on the board of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and also the John Howard Society. He teaches courses in forensic psychiatry, phenomenology and sexual disorders and has given lectures and seminars at provincial and national meetings.