Dr Suneeta Monga

Dr. Suneeta Monga is the Medical Director of the Ambulatory Psychiatry Services at the Hospital for Sick Children and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Monga completed medical school and her psychiatry residency at the University of Alberta (Canada). She was the recipient of the R. Samuel McLaughlin Scholarship for fellowship training and completed her child psychiatry fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (United States of America). Dr. Monga worked as a staff psychiatrist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton (Canada) from 1995 to 1999 when she joined the Department of Psychiatry at the Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Monga's research, educational and clinical activities are in the area of childhood anxiety disorders and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) with a special focus on the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders, including selective mutism in four- to seven-year-old children. Dr. Monga is the original creator of the Taming Sneaky Fears program, a group CBT treatment program for four- to seven-year-old children with anxiety disorders and their parents and she has been actively involved in the evaluation and refinement of this treatment program as well as the development of innovative assessment and treatment evaluation tools for selective mutism and social anxiety disorder in young children. Dr. Monga has published in peer-reviewed, scientific publications and has made numerous presentations on related topics across North America and abroad.