Mary K. Nixon

Mary Kay Nixon

 

Mary K. Nixon MD FRCPC

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Victoria

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Dr. Nixon practices now very part time as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Victoria, British Columbia. She consults for Island Health Telehealth and the Transitional Pediatric Care Clinic at Queen Alexandra Health Center. She has had a community/team based practice with Saanich Child and Youth Mental Health and Project Alive (an early intervention service for suicidal adolescents), and worked in early intervention for youth with psychosis (EPI) at the Queen Alexandra Health Center. She is a Clinical Associate Professor with the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, and an Affiliate Associate Professor with the Division of Medical Sciences at the University of Victoria. Dr. Nixon is the founding editor of the Journal of the Canadian Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She was the network leader for INSYNC (Interdisciplinary National Self-Injury in Youth Network of Canada), a group of researchers studying self-injury across Canada that was initiated in 2005.

Dr. Nixon was the Head of the Mood and Anxiety Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario as well as the Director of Psychiatry Research. She developed  the Ottawa Self-Injury Inventory (OSI) and OSI-Functions, as self report assessment tools for youth and adults who self-injure. She has published a number of articles including in the area of self injury. She. co-edited  and contributed to a number of chapters in the book Self Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Interventions, Routledge Press, 2009.