Head and shoulders image of Dr. Rudy Bowen, Head, Psychiatry, College of Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Rudy Cecil Bowen joined the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in 1973 and served for 45 years. He was the director of Postgraduate education from 1977-1982, active in COPE, CPA Education Liaison, and Royal College Specialty Committee from 1975-1989. Dr. Bowen was appointed clinical director of the Inpatient Unit at Royal University Hospital in 1990. He worked to develop guidelines to help reduce the length of stay — recognized by the SMA with a Quality Improvement Award in 1993. Dr. Bowen was department head from 1994-2001, was awarded the Small Indiana Professorship, and served as the department’s Clinical Research Director and Resident Research Support for the last eight years (2021). His passion for the practice of psychiatry reflected in his longstanding dedication to evidence-based clinical practice and education. Dr. Bowen is a pioneer psychiatrist in the use of cognitive behavioral techniques to treat anxiety and mood disorders, which is now the standard for specialty practice. The Dr. Rudy Bowen Mood Disorders Fund was established in 2018 as a named fun within Royal University Hospital’s Communication Mental Health Endowment (CMHE). The primary purpose of the fund is to finance research on mood disorders and anxiety or new program development by clinicians from the Department of Psychiatry or Saskatchewan Health Authority Mental Health & Addiction group. Dr. Bowen retired in 2019 and is professor emeritus of Psychiatry (2021).