Ralph Peter Uhlmann, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychiatry,
University of British Columbia


Born: November 20, 1940
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Married 1963, Three children

Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. Premed studies 1958-61

University of Illinois Medical School, Chicago, Ill. Medical degree 1961-65

Rotating internship, Highland-Alameda County Hospital, Oakland, California, 1965-66

United States Public Health Service, 1966-68 one year as a Peace
Corps physician in Somalia, one year as general practitioner on
the Colville Indian Reservation, Nespelem, Wash. Rank of Lt.
Cmdr.

University of British Columbia and University of Auckland (NZ)
1970-72 1973-76 Completion of psychiatric residency program and
certification as a qualified psychiatrist in Canada (1976)

Additional courses in psychodrama, drawing therapy, sexual abuse, critical incident stress debriefing, and completion of grief and loss training with Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Private practice in general psychiatry, Powell River, British
Columbia 1976-94 Director of Psychiatry, Powell River General
Hospital, Consultant to P.R. Mental Health Centre, Chairperson of
multiple mental health, community, and hospital committees.

Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Western University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan province, China 1991

Visiting consultant in rural psychiatry to Terrace, B.C. Mental Health Centre, 1996

Visiting consultant in psychiatry to Vanderhoof, B.C. Mental Health Centre, 1997-98

Consultant to the Sea to Sky Mental Health Centre, Squamish, BC. 1998

Staff psychiatrist, Courtenay Mental Health Centre, Courtenay, B.C. 1998

Consultant to Yukon Department of Mental Health, 1998

Consultant to Zhitomir Regional Hospitals, Zhitomir, Ukraine, May, 1998

Consultant to Cariboo Region Mental Health, Nov. 1998 - Apr. 1999

Supervisor and Consulting Psychiatrist,
New Horizon Wellness Center, New Mexico. March 18, 2002 - March 19, 2004

Consultant Psychiatrist,
Vancouver Island Health Authority
June 1, 2004 - May 31, 2005

Locum Consultant Psychiatrist,
Stanton Territorial Hospital, Yellowknife, NWT 
April,May, 2004; November, 2004;
June, 2005.

Psychiatric Consultant
Taloyoak and Kugaaruk (Nunavut) and Ft. Smith, Ft. Simpson, and Hay River, NWT.
2005-present.

PUBLICATIONS

When You Teach Psychiatry In China, Both Sides Learn Something. Can Med Assoc J 1992: 147 (11) 1696-98

A Single-Entry Mental Health Model For Rural Communities. BC Medical Journal Vol 35, Number 10, October 1993 736-39

Rural Psychiatric Practice. BC Medical Journal Vol 38, Number 6, June 1996 313-14

Use of Drawings in a Psychiatric Day Program. The CGPA Chronicle Vol 11, No 1 2-3

Externalization in a Psychiatric Day Program. Presented to the CGPA annual meeting in Toronto, 1994

Learning To Let Go: One Physician's Experience With Cancer. Can Med Assoc J 1997: April 1, 1997

Tai Chi and Health. B.C Medical Journal May 1997

Letter describing Psychiatric Consultation in Zhitomir, Ukrainian Journal of Psychiatry, 1999

Parallax, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Oct. 3, 2000, p.865

Psychiatry Divided (Book Review), Canadian Medical Association Journal, Jan.9, 2001, pp.73-74

Physician Heal Thyself, The Medical Post, Oct.24, 2000 pp.24-25

Home Delivery, The Medical Post, Jan.23, 2001 p.37

When Writing Prescriptions Just Isn't Enough, The Medical Post, Feb.13, 2001 p20

The Physician as Martial Artist, Imprint Magazine, Winter 2000-01 pp.10-11

How Did I End Up Here?, Imprint Magazine, Spring 2001 pp.8-9

Bitter Pills (Letter to the Editor), The New Yorker, Jan.29, 2001 p.8

Woodstock doc, The Medical Post, April 24, 2001

Abandoning control, The Medical Post, August 7, 2001

The art of medicine, The Medical Post, Oct. 16, 2001

Unconscious Melancholy, Canadian Medical Assoc. Journal, Nov. 13, 2001; 165 (10) pp. 1363-64

Afghanistan Remembered, The Medical Post, January 8, 2002

Marriage: a new view, The Medical Post, January 22, 2002

Wang Hui-Juin's 7 Principles of Tai Chi, Inside Kung Fu, February, 2002

Memories of the Pacific Coast, Am J Psychiatry 160: 2092-93, Dec. 2003

Various articles published in lay magazines such as Pacific Yachting, T'ai Chi Magazine, and Qi Journal



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Phone: (604) 483 4567

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