Abigail Ortiz

Psychiatrist The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre and Mood Disorders Center of Ottawa, UOHS

  • Ottawa ON

Dr. Ortiz’s research focuses on understanding mood regulation using mathematics

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Areas of Expertise

Mood Disorders
Bipolar Disorder
Mood regulation
Pharmacotherapy
Nonlinear methods in Psychiatry
Major depressive disorder
Mental Health

Accomplishments

Travel Fellowship Award

2017

Society of Biological Psychiatry

Young Researcher Inspiration Award

2016

Samuel Gershon Award

2015

International Society for Bipolar Disorders

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Education

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

FRCPC

Psychiatry

Dalhousie University

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Mood Disorders

McGill University

M.Sc.

Psychiatry

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Affiliations

  • International Mood Network : Member
  • ACNP Underrepresented Minority Task Force : Member
  • International Society of Bipolar Disorders : Member
  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada : Member
  • Canadian College of Psychopharmacology : Member
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Languages

  • English
  • Spanish

Media Appearances

Dr. Abigail Ortiz is Breaking New Ground with Mathematics

The Royal's Institute of Mental Health Research  

2016-03-15

Dr. Ortiz’s research focuses on the subtle mood fluctuations in patients suffering from depression and bipolar disorder, which cannot be well documented using standard rating scales. Applying techniques related to chaos theory, she is using mathematical tools that have benefited neurology and cardiology patients to refine our understanding of mood regulation...

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Around Town: Royal Ottawa to name a garden after Margaret Trudeau

Ottawa Citizen  

2016-03-05

The evening handed out awards to Jayson Pham (Youth Inspiration Award), Dr. Abigail Ortiz (Young Researcher Inspiration Award), Jean-François Claude and Tyrone Gamble (Personal Inspiration Award), Ruth Maxwell (Community Inspiration Award) and Gayle Grass (Leader for Mental Health Award)...

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Event Appearances

New methods for analyzing mood data in bipolar disorder

University of Ottawa, Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds  Ottawa, ON., Canada

2016-10-26

Exponential state transition dynamics in the rest-activity architecture of patients with bipolar disorder

18th annual conference of the International Society for Bipolar Disorder and the 8th biennal conference of the International Society for Affective Disorders  Amsterdam, Netherlands

2016-07-01

New methods for analyzing mood data in bipolar disorder

17th Annual Conference of the International Society of Bipolar Disorders (ISBD)  Toronto, ON., Canada

2016-06-03

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Research Grants

Heart rate variability in bipolar disorder

University Medical Research Fund, University of Ottawa, 2015

Principal Investigator : Dr. Abigail Ortiz
Co-investigators : Dr. Kamil Brader

Time-series analysis: understanding mood regulation in bipolar disorder

Capital Health Research Fund, 2011

Principal Investigator : Dr. Abigail Ortiz

Time-series analysis: an approach for understanding mood regulation

Department of Psychiatry Research Fund, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2009

Principal Investigator : Dr. Abigail Ortiz

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Articles

An admixture analysis of the age at index episodes in bipolar disorder

Psychiatry Research

2011

The interaction between polarity at onset (PAO) and age at onset (AAO) appears to be important for interpreting results of previous analyses of AAO in bipolar disorder (BD). Using an admixture analysis, we examined independently the distributions of age at first depressive and hypomanic/manic episodes in 379 BD I and II patients...

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Treatment of bipolar disorder with comorbid migraine

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

2010

A 43-year-old woman with bipolar type II disorder and comorbid migraine without aura had experienced recurrent depressive episodes since age 30 (some with complete, spontaneous recovery) and had taken various classes of antidepressants...

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Cross‐prevalence of migraine and bipolar disorder

Bipolar Disorders

2010

Objective: In two related studies, we explored the prevalence of migraine and its associated clinical characteristics in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) as well as psychiatric morbidity in patients treated for migraine.

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