Dr. Sanjeev Sockalingam

Dr. Sockalingam graduated from medical school at the University of Manitoba and completed his psychiatry residency training at the University of Toronto. He is currently a staff psychiatrist at the University Health Network in the Program of Medical Psychiatry and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Sockalingam is the Director of the Bariatric Surgery Psychosocial Program at the Toronto Western Hospital, which involves a large psychosocial team providing peri-operative and long-term follow-up for bariatric patients. His research interests include examining predictors of weight loss and psychosocial distress in bariatric surgery patients and also potential treatment interventions in this area.