Karen Saperson

Dr. Karen Saperson is a psychiatrist in Hamilton, Ontario.

Saperson is a University Academic Representative with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario for McMaster University.

She is employed as a Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, and is head of that department.¹⁾ She is also the Program Director for Geriatric Psychiatry, and the Academic Head for the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry.²⁾

Saperson practices psychiatry through St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. and has hospital privileges at McMaster Children’s Hospital, St. Peter’s Hospital (Hamilton Health Sciences), Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre, and St. Joseph's Centre for Mountain Health Services.³⁾

Saperson was a recipient of the 2017 Royal College’s AMS/Donald R. Wilson Award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. “Dr. Saperson is unquestionably a pioneer in the field of mentorship.”⁴⁾ She was selected for the reward “for inspiring and developing novel teaching methodologies that have raised the quality and quantity of research and scholarship emanating from her department at McMaster University.”