Jonathan Rootenberg

Jonathan Rootenberg

Dr. Jonathan Rootenberg is a forensic psychiatrist in Toronto, Ontario.

After completing Form 1 at King David Victory Park in 1975, he and his family left Johannesburg and moved to Toronto. After completing a Bachelor of Science undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in 1984, he attended medical school at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin and completed his psychiatry residency and a fellowship in forensic psychiatry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he was the Chief Resident.

After being recruited back to Toronto, he held senior staff positions at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, working on inpatient forensic psychiatric units for more than twenty years. In addition to being a Psychiatric Member of the Ontario Review Board, responsible for deciding on appropriate dispositions for those individuals who have been found unfit to stand trial and not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder, he also maintains a private practice in which he assesses, diagnoses and treats a broad spectrum of psychiatric conditions and criminal and civil cases.

He and his wife of 30+ years are the proud parents of three girls - all of whom followed in his footsteps, attending Jewish Day School and High School.