Dr. David Tano, MD, FRCPC

Dr. David Tano is currently working as the Senior Medical Director for Psychiatry and Mental Health for Recovery Alberta.  Prior to this he was acting as the Clinical Department Head for Addictions and Mental Health for the Calgary Zone of Recovery Alberta and as a forensic psychiatrist at the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre.  He is also working as the Clinical Medical Director for the Community Extension Team, the Police Community Treatment Order Team and the Police and Crisis Team.  He consults regularly to the Provincial Courts of Alberta.  He has historically also consulted to a non-profit organization known as Keys to Recovery, which was a housing first program aimed at housing people with addiction issues and classified as “hard to house”.    For 6 years he worked as the Clinical Medical Director of a general inpatient psychiatric unit and also consulted for 8 years to the federal halfway houses and federal institutions for Corrections Services Canada.  He has been teaching residents and medical students for over 20 years and was previously a Royal College Examiner for the specialty of Psychiatry, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Calgary and has recently has moved on from the position of Resident Program Director for the subspecialty of Forensic Psychiatry. 

He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Calgary and his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Alberta. 

He has a special interest in the vulnerable marginalized chronically and persistently ill populations.