Anita Chakravarti

About Anita Chakravarti, MD

Dr. Anita Chakravarti is a professor at the College of Medicine, UofS, for over 30 years. In addition to providing service in Clinical Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, she was the first Medical Director of the regional Chronic Pain Centre. She was on the National Task Force to have Pain Medicine recognized as a sub specialty of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, on the Pain Education Committee of the Canadian Pain Society, and Medical Advisor to the Canadian Pain Coalition. Dr. Chakravarti has recently focused on wellness initiatives for healthcare and human service providers and was on the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Expert Working Group on Physician Health.  She has presented many interprofessional and interdisciplinary sessions on individual and organizational wellness both locally and nationally.  She has published two articles on Resident Wellness (Canadian Journal of Anesthesia February 2017) and was invited to University of Manitoba Department of Anesthesiology to help establish their program. She has presented this research at the International Conference on Residency Education (2016) and the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society (2018). You can learn more about Dr. Chakravarti work at [M]Power Mindful Professional Practice.