GORDON WILLIAM TISDALL, MD, LMCC, DPsych, CRCP(C) and FRCP(C)

Gordon Tisdall was a gifted psychiatrist who had a wide base of patients that benefitted from his knowledge and training. Graduating from University of Toronto in Medicine (1964), he undertook his Internship at Vancouver General Hospital and his residency in Internal Medicine at Sunnybrook Hospital. His growing interest in adolescent psychiatry took him to further training at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, the C.M. Hincks Treatment Centre and then Mount Sinai Hospital. Working at the University of Toronto from 1970, he became Director and Psychiatrist in Chief, Psychiatric Division at the University Health Service (1985) until he moved fully into private practice in 1997. Gordon died on April 29, 2024, at the age of 86. He is father to Douglas (d. 2016) and Kay, from Gordon's first marriage with Barbara; and grandfather to Sigourney (Douglas and Sonya) and Alec and Emily (Kay and Robert). His later marriage to Robin for the last 23 years connected him to his stepdaughter, Carolynne, her partner, Craig and her children, Alec, Juliette and Nicolas.