Polina Anang, MD, PhD, FRCPC

  • Polina Anang

  • Assistant professor

    Department of Psychiatry
    Max Rady College of Medicine
    University of Manitoba
    Room PZ-107 PsycHealth Centre
    771 Bannatyne Avenue
    Health Sciences Centre
    Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 3N4

    Phone: 204-787-7470
    Fax: 204-787-4975
    Email: panang@hsc.mb.ca

Research summary

Dr. Polina Anang is committed to exploring intersectionality, ethics, and power structures. Her interest in research stems from curiosity about expanding collaboration and breaking down silos. Dr. Anang is seeking out partnerships with Indigenous communities to promote Indigenous-led research. She is furthermore attracted to crossroads of mental and physical health. Her research informs and enhances her clinical work in Child and Adolescent psychiatry as well as her role as advocate of dismantling systemic racism in health care.

Research groups

  • Achieving health equity through partnership between urban Indigenous youth and University of Manitoba psychiatry training program. In collaboration with Ndinawemaaganag Endaawaad Inc., Katz C, PGY 6, Krueger N, PGY3
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant ($1,954,576) for Qanuinngitsiarutiksait.2: Developing tools for the wellness and safety of Inuit, Co-Investigator, with Lavoie J, Clark W, Dederick J as Principle Investigators
  • Building on Strengths in Naujaat – a Youth Initiative. Community Based Participatory Research to increase sense of purpose and enhance resilience in Inuit youth in Naujaat, Nunavut. With Bronson M, Gottlieb N, Gordon E, Tegumiar K, Uttak V & Naujaat youth group
  • R-POP (Resident Psychotherapy Outcome Project): Evaluating the efficacy of resident-delivered psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with Fleisher W, Boman J, Morrissette M, Harvey T, PGY5
  • Department of Psychiatry Academic Projects Award for “Chronic Pain and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Children and Adolescents” ($10,000). In collaboration with Young M, PGY5
  • Recipient of Health Sciences Centre Allied Health Grant ($22,293) for “Co-creation of knowledge translation tools to improve the management of chronic pain in children and youth”, with Wittmeier K, Gerhold K, Brown C et al.

Keywords

Child and adolescent psychiatry

Chronic pain management

Community-based participatory research

Indigenous-led research

Intersectionality

Mental health

Power structures

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Systemic racism

Biography

Dr. Polina Anang is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba. She is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Anang's research interests focus on exploring intersectionality, ethics, and power structures, with a particular interest in promoting Indigenous-led research. Her research informs her clinical work in child and adolescent psychiatry and her role as an advocate for dismantling systemic racism in healthcare.

Dr. Anang received her doctor of medicine degree and PhD in psychosomatic medicine from Johannes Gutenberg University. She completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Manitoba. She enjoys close collaboration with interdisciplinary teams providing care for youth with chronic illnesses and somatic symptom and conversion disorders. Dr. Anang is co-facilitating mind-body connection groups for youth with somatization and their parents in collaboration with clinical health psychology.

Dr. Anang provides supervision in psychodynamic psychotherapy to psychiatry residents, mentors medical students, and created the curriculum for Indigenous perspectives on Mental Health PGY1-PGY4 seminar series. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the Learning and Innovation Award from Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing, the Resident Teacher of the Year from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, and the Best Paper Award for Ethical Dilemmas in CBPR at the 18th Annual Research Forum at the Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba. Dr. Anang has also been awarded several grants to support her research projects, including a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant for Qanuinngitsiarutiksait.2, and a Health Sciences Centre Allied Health Grant for Co-creation of knowledge translation tools to improve the management of chronic pain in children and youth.

Education

Residency in Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba (2008-2013)

PhD in Psychosomatic Medicine from Johannes Gutenberg University (1998-2003)

Doctor of Medicine from Johannes Gutenberg University (1995-2002)

Awards

Best Paper Award for Ethical Dilemmas in CBPR at the 18th Annual Research Forum, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba (2020)

Learning and Innovation Award from Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba (2018)

Resident Teacher of the Year from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba (2013)

Gustavo Lage Award for Best Psychotherapy Related Paper at Resident Research Day, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba (2010)

Contact us

Psychiatry
PZ433-771 Bannatyne Avenue
University of Manitoba, Bannatyne campus
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3N4 Canada

204-787-7056 
204-787-4879