MENTAL HEALTH (CAMH) - Key Persons
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- Knowledge Engineering Lead
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- Research Methods Specialist, XNAT
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- Project Scientist / Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute
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- Manager, Neuroinformatics Operations
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- IT / DS Analyst ( Data Systems Administrator )
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- Research Methods Specialist
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- Chief Analytics Officer / Operations Director, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
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- Clinician Scientist, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH / Lead for the Bipolar Disorder Integrated Care Pathways at CAMH
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- Senior Scientist
- Clinician Scientist - Schizophrenia Division and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Dr. Albert Wong is senior scientist in the Brain Health Imaging Centre and a psychiatrist in the Schizophrenia Division at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, and Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto.
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- Project Scientist, Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition
Alexia Polillo, Project Scientist, Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition, presenting results of the e-NAVIGATE project at the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry Research Day
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- Scientist
- Science & Research Staff Directory
- Scientist at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
Scientist - Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Dr. Andreea Diaconescu is a scientist at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Dr. Diaconescu is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto with cross-appointments with the Institute of Medical Science and the Department of Psychology, and a member of the Max Planck-University of Toronto Centre for Neural Science and Technology.
Before this, she was a Swiss National Foundation Ambizione fellow and junior group leader at the University in Basel, Department of Psychiatry leading a project on early detection and treatment of psychosis using mathematical modelling. After completing her PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, Dr. Diaconescu held a postdoctoral position at the Translational Neuromodeling Unit, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. There, she developed and applied (neuro)computational models of learning and decision-making to understand the emergence and persistence of delusions in psychoaffective disorders such as schizophrenia.
Dr. Diaconescu has developed and validated mathematical models that infer subject-specific disturbances of information processing in neuronal circuits from neuroimaging, electrophysiological, and behaviour measures. She also has expertise in whole-brain, multimodal neuroimaging analysis methods. Dr. Diaconescu's research is centered on the clinical validation of (neuro)computational models of learning and decision-making for predicting psychosocial functioning and treatment response in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. Moreover, Dr. Diaconescu is engaged in the identification of cognition- and neuroimaging-based transdiagnostic predictors of suicidality.
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- Head
- Senior Scientist
- Science & Research Staff Directory
- Senior Scientist With the Brain Health Imaging Centre and Adult Neurodevelopment and Geriatric Psychiatry Division at the Centre for Addiction
Head - Multimodal Imaging Group, Geriatrics Division and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Dr. Ariel Graff is senior scientist with the Brain Health Imaging Centre and Adult Neurodevelopment and Geriatric Psychiatry Division at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). At CAMH, he is also head of multimodal imaging group in schizophrenia and geriatrics and medical head of the inpatient geriatric psychiatry service. Dr. Graff is an associate professor of psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and a full member in the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto (UofT).
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- Founding Director of the Slaight Family Centre for Youth
- Vice President of Research and Director of the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH
- Vice President, Research Director, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute Director, CAMH Foundation Board
- Vice President, Research Director, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Aristotle Voineskos, Founding Director of the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition and Vice-President Research, with Nicole Kozloff and George Foussias, Co-Directors, Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition, at an event to support the CAMH Foundation
Dr. Aristotle Voineskos is the Vice President of Research and Director of the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH. He leads a team of nearly 200 scientists and over 600 research staff committed to making discoveries to improve the quality of life for people served by CAMH, and beyond, through brain science, clinical research, health services research, and policy and population health research. Dr. Voineskos has an outstanding track-record as a clinician, a scientist, and a leader, driving change to improve care for people with mental illness.
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- Project Manager, BrainHealth Databank
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- Professor and Labatt Family Chair
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- Member of the International Advisory Board
- Associate Director, UCLA Center for Health Services
Associate Director, UCLA Center for Health Services and Society; Associate Chair, Academic Affairs, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, United States
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- Project Scientist - Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition, CAMH
- Project Scientist / Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute
- Project Scientist With the Campbell Family Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction
Dr. Christin Schifani is a project scientist with the Campbell Family Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
Scientist - Forensic Early Intervention Service and Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition, CAMH Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
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- Bioethicist and Independent Scientist, Director, Everyday Ethics Lab, CAMH
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- Staff Scientist, Krembil Centre and the Kimel Family Translational Imaging - Genetics Lab
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- Research Methods Specialist
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- Deputy Director and Senior Scientist, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute
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- Chief
- Scientific Director
- Co - Director - Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition / Chief, Schizophrenia Division, CAMH
- Scientific Director of the Slaight Family Centre for Youth
Dr. George Foussias is the Scientific Director of the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition and Chief of the Schizophrenia Division at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He heads the Virtual Reality and Behavioural Neuroscience Research Laboratory at CAMH. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto.
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- Senior Scientist, the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Digital
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- Coordinator
- Member of the International Advisory Board
- Associate Professor, Department
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- Scientist - Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition
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- Member of the International Advisory Board
- Professor of Psychiatry, Université De Montréal, Canada
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- Implementation Science Director
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- Scientist
- Scientist With the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research
Dr. Juveria Zaheer is a scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and General Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems Division at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
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- Member of the International Advisory Board
- Chief, Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, United States
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- Project Scientist, the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
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- Chief Medical Officer / Vice President, Medical & Academic Affairs
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- Chief, Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative
- Chief, Department of Psychiatry at the Hospital for Sick Children
It is with great pleasure that we announce the new Chief, Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative, Dr. Louise Gallagher.
Gallagher will serve as Chief, Department of Psychiatry at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and will work in collaboration with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health as their Chief, Child and Youth Division and with University of Toronto as their Director, Division of Child and Youth Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, where she will also be appointed as a Professor. In addition, she will continue her research activities at SickKids.
Dr. Gallagher will commence her role here in mid-July 2022. She comes to us from Dublin, Ireland and brings with her a wealth of knowledge, experience and dedication to the world of paediatric psychiatry and child and youth mental health.
Dr. Gallagher (MB MRCPsych PhD FTCD) is Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Trinity College Dublin and a Consultant Child Psychiatrist in Children's Health Ireland at Tallaght University Hospital. Her research interests are in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders, and she leads a multi-disciplinary research team focused on understanding the relationship between genetic factors, neurocognitive and clinical phenotypes or traits. The ultimate goal of her research is to identify neurobiologically valid translational biomarkers to inform diagnosis and the development of new therapies. The research team applies a range of methodologies that include genomics, MRI, EEG and clinical phenotyping. She has strong international collaborative research activities and is currently a member of AIMS-2-TRIALS, a consortium working towards autism biomarkers and clinical trials and is a member of several European and international research networks involved in autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions.
Dr. Gallagher has also been a lead consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Irish Health Service for 17 years. In that time, she oversaw the development of services for paediatric consultation liaison, neurodevelopmental assessment and a large regional community consultation service for autistic children and youth. She has worked closely with health-care managers in service development and has been involved in policy advice to health services on autism and other rare neuropsychiatric conditions. She chairs the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Autism Special Interest Group, which is tasked with providing policy advice on service provision, guiding education and continuing professional development for psychiatrists at all career stages.
She is a strong advocate for the involvement of community in research and improved mental health services. She has worked with advocacy groups in Ireland and internationally to address the gap between research evidence and clinical service delivery, e.g., AsIAm.ie, the International Prader Willi Syndrome Organisation and The Prader Willi Syndrome Clinical Trials Consortium. She is also the International Society for Autism Research Global Leader for Ireland.
We have a bold and ground-breaking strategy for the future of child and youth mental health and with Dr. Gallagher's direction, leadership and passion we know the children, youth and families that we serve will benefit greatly.
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- Scientist
- Psychiatrist and Scientist in the Schizophrenia Division at the Centre for Addiction
- Science & Research Staff Directory
Dr. Mahavir Agarwal is a Psychiatrist and Scientist in the Schizophrenia Division at the Centre for Addiction at Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is also the Medical Head for Clinical Research in the Schizophrenia Division and co-leads the Metabolic Clinic and the Clozapine Clinic at CAMH.
Dr. Agarwal's research interest lies in understanding the mechanisms underlying metabolic and cognitive dysfunction in mental illness with specific focus on insulin signaling in the brain. He also runs clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy of new treatments for these abnormalities. He has won several international research awards and his research program has been funded by federal, provincial, and local grant agencies.
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- Clinician Scientist - Schizophrenia Division and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
- Scientist in the Schizophrenia Division at CAMH
- Senior Scientist, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute
Dr. Margaret Hahn is a Clinician-Scientist in the Schizophrenia Division at CAMH, and a Professor within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Hahn holds the Kelly and Michael Meighen Research Chair for Psychosis Prevention and has dedicated her research and clinical career to exploring the early relationships between psychosis spectrum disorders and cardiometabolic health. During her career Dr. Hahn has won numerous awards for her mentorship and teaching, in 2022 she was awarded the prestigious CIHR and CPA Glenda M. MacQueen Memorial Career Development Award for Women in Psychiatry.
Dr. Hahn currently co-leads the Mental Health and Metabolic Clinic at the CAMH within the Complex Care and Recovery Program. This clinic is one of the first of its kind worldwide; specializing in simultaneously tackling mental health and the metabolic alterations that accompany schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) and other severe mental illnesses, from the earliest stages of diagnosis. Recognizing the need for more clinics with this niche focus, she has been working since 2021to establish a clinic which follows the same model in Denmark, where she was a Visiting Professor through the Danish Diabetes Academy and the Steno Diabetes Centre, NovoNordisk Foundation. Dr. Hahn is also actively engaged to translate research knowledge into patient care, including contribution to national clinical practice guidelines.
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- Staff Scientist, the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
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- Associate
- Scientist
- Associate Scientist and Psychologist
- Psychologist - Psychosis Recovery & Treatment Services, Complex Care and Recovery Program, CAMH
- Science & Research Staff Directory
Dr. Michael Grossman is an associate scientist and psychologist in the Schizophrenia Division and clinical lead for the CBT for Psychosis (CBTp) Service in the Complex Care and Recovery Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Queen's University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at CAMH.
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- Project Scientist, the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
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- Co - Director
- Scientist
- Co - Director - Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition
- Co - Director of the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Trans
- Science & Research Staff Directory
Nicole Kozloff, Co-Director of the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition, presenting results of the e-NAVIGATE project at the joint Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Dr. Nicole Kozloff is a scientist, child and adolescent psychiatrist and the co-director of the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is also an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
Outside of CAMH, Dr. Kozloff also consults to community agencies providing mental health services to youth.
Dr. Kozloff completed her Doctor of Medicine at Queen's University, residency training in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a Master of Science in health policy and management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Her work has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ontario Ministry of Health, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, SSHRC, Brain Canada, Ontario Brain Institute, University of Toronto, CAMH AFP Innovation Fund and CAMH Foundation, including as a Koerner New Scientist.
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- Associate
- Scientist
- Medical Head and Clinician Scientist - Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition and Schizophrenia Division, CAMH Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
- Science & Research Staff Directory
Dr. Omair Husain is an associate scientist in the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition at CAMH and an assistant professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.
He completed his medical training at St George's University of London in the UK. His psychiatry residency was completed in the UK at the South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. In addition to his experience in Canada and the UK, Dr Husain has worked with mental health services in Australia with the North Sydney Local Health District.
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- Clinician Scientist, Addictions Division at CAMH
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- Senior Scientist
- Senior Scientist in the Brain Health Imaging Centre & Pre - Clinical Research and Adult Neurodevelopment and Geriatric Psychiatry at the Centre for Addiction
Dr. Philip Gerretsen is a senior scientist in the Brain Health Imaging Centre & Pre-Clinical Research and Adult Neurodevelopment and Geriatric Psychiatry at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
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- Clinician Scientist - Geriatrics Divisions and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
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- Associate Scientist, Digital Mental Health Lab, the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
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- Member of the International Advisory Board
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- Senior Scientist
- Chief, Psychology Division, Scientist
- Senior Scientist With the Slaight Family Centre for Youth
Chief, Psychology Division, Scientist, Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition, Schizophrenia Division, and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Dr. Sean Kidd is a senior scientist with the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and an associate professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry.
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- Research Analyst, the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
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- Clinician Scientist in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH
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- Co - Director
- Senior Scientist
- Associate Director of the Cundill Centre for Child
Dr. Stephanie Ameis is a senior scientist and the Associate Director of the Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and is appointed to the Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative at CAMH, the University of Toronto and SickKids. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and is Director of the Department of Psychiatry's Clinician Scientist Program.
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- Affiliate Scientist - Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH
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- Research Methods Specialist, Business Intelligence
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- Manager, Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre
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- IT Specialist, Research Operations
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- Research Methods Specialist, REDCap
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- Member of the International Advisory Board
- Vice Dean
Vice Dean (Academic Psychiatry), Chair of Mood Disorders, and Director, Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK
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- Member of the International Advisory Board
- Professor of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Australia
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- Knowledge Translation Specialist
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- Knowledge Translation Specialist
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- Research Manager, the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
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- Director, Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre