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Dr. Nadiya Sunderji

Dr. Nadiya Sunderji

Dr. Nadiya Sunderji
President and Chief Executive Officer


Dr. Sunderji assumed the role as Waypoint’s second President and CEO on June 13th after serving as Vice-President Medical Affairs and Chief of Staff since February 2019. In this role, she has been instrumental in championing an engaged physician workforce through new programming which included Waypoint’s first physician assistants and the development a strong physician leadership structure expanding to outpatients and digital health. Her leadership led to the launch of the new Family, Child and Youth Mental Health Program which has already served over 1,200 children and youth. She has also sponsored the implementation of the Health Quality Ontario Standards and supported the innovative development of virtual concurrent disorders services.


Dr. Sunderji earned her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Western Ontario, London and her residency in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto in 2008. She has also completed a Master of Public Health, with a Certificate in Quality, Patient Safety, and Outcomes Research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and a certificate from the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of Toronto where she is now a faculty member. 

Dr. Sunderji is an Associate Professor in the Division of Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Toronto. Dr. Sunderji led Integrated Mental Health Care Education from 2015-18, providing vision and oversight of a transformation that engaged many faculty and residents in expanding the Department’s service to primary care and community agency settings throughout Toronto. As a result of this achievement, she was invited to provide consultation to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Council of Psychiatric Educators, and educators across the country. 

Dr. Sunderji has been conducting research and quality improvement to improve the implementation of integrated collaborative mental health care in primary care settings. As a principal investigator, she holds grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Health Canada, and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and has partnered in research with both patients and policymakers. She coordinated the annual Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference, was Co-Editor of the journal Families, Systems, & Health (a journal of the American Psychological Association), and has consulted to local, provincial and national organizations regarding quality of mental health services. 

She has received international and national recognition for her leadership and research in collaborative care, quality improvement and education. She has lectured internationally and is the author and co-author of numerous publications focused on integrated care, leading her to be a sought after mentor.