Tatiana Valverde da Conceicao

Dr. Valverde da Conceicao is a Child and Youth Psychiatrist at the Reproductive Life  Stages Program at Women’s College Hospital. She’s an Assistant Professor at University  of Toronto. Her clinical work involves general Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with a  special interest on early childhood mental health.

She studied Medicine at the Federal University of Porto Alegre in Brazil, where she also completed her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry residency training and PhD. At the University of Brasilia, in Brazil, she designed a pioneering university-based child development course for early childhood educators who worked at public schools. Prior to joining UofT, she served as an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, Canada.

Dr. Valverde da Conceicao is a clinician teacher who has taught both undergraduate medical students and postgraduate residents in Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics in Brazil and Canada. She has been actively engaged with education, having had the opportunity to be part of a workforce to implement a new curriculum that integrated Humanities at a medical school, has used innovative methods for teaching Human Development and has worked with curriculum development for a Child Psychiatry residency program. Her research interests include parenting practices, early childhood and siblings of children with complex medical conditions. She is involved in international collaborations to advance education in Child Psychiatry.

Select awards

2026 Marion Hilliard Trust Fund Award- Women’s College Hospital, Ontario, Canada

2025 Women’s College Hospital Education Innovation Award- Women’s College Hospital, Ontario, Canada

2025 Ivan L. Silver Award for Excellence in CPDD- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto (nominated)

2024 MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

2024 Women’s College Hospital Teacher-Educator/Clinical Instructor/Preceptor Award - Women’s College Hospital, Ontario, Canada

2021 Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization (SEAMO) Medical Education Development Program - Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario