Dr. Rebecca Anglin is a consultant psychiatrist and award-winning medical educator who has held senior clinical and academic leadership roles in Canada and Australia. Currently she is the Dean of the Global MD Program at the University of Western Australia.  

Dr.Anglin is dedicated to medical student education and wellbeing and is involved in a range of novel curriculum development and evaluation initiatives. She was previously Professor & Associate Dean Preclinical at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle and Fellowship Director & Chief Examiner at McMaster University in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences. She was the first person at McMaster University to be awarded both the Dedication to Education Award and the Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award by the Department of Psychiatry in the same year.

Dr.Anglin is an experienced clinician with over a decade working as a consultant psychiatrist in Canada and Australia. She has extensive experience in clinical leadership and service development with a focus on integrating services for mental and physical health and medico-legal psychiatry. She is a recognized leader in the field of Consultation-Liaison psychiatry with particular expertise in the management of the psychiatric comorbidity of gastrointestinal disorders and perinatal psychiatry.

Dr. Anglin completed a PhD in Medical Sciences and a Clinician Investigator Fellowship at McMaster University. Her research activity is focused on the gut-brain axis and the role of gut microbiota in mental health. Dr.Anglin has received funding from several national and international granting agencies. Dr.Anglin has over 40 peer-reviewed publications with high citation frequencies in high impact journals and was psychiatry co-editor of the McMaster Internal Medicine Textbook and has contributed invited chapters to three books on Biological Psychiatry.