At this one-day conference researchers will be sharing their insights surrounding mental health issues. A portion of the symposium will be dedicated to children and youth mental health issues. There will be many guest speakers (list shown below) presenting their research however there will be opportunities for discussion as well.
The Symposium will take place in Toronto, Ontario on April 24th, 2012.
The List of Speakers Include (from the Douglas website):
- Jean Addington, Alberta Centennial Mental Health Research Chair & Novartis Chair in Schizophrenia Research; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
- Jean-Luc Taschereau, President, Mental Illness Foundation, Montréal, QC, joined by Bianca Petrilli and James Graves, two Partners for Life facilitators
- Rupert Duchesne, Chair, Brain Canada; President and CEO AIMIA Inc
- Anne C. Duffy, Professor Senior Clinical Research Scholar Department of Psychiatry Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
- Robert K. Heinssen, Director, Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, M.D., USA
- Michael Krausz, UBC Providence Leadership Chair for Addiction Research; Professor of Psychiatry, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia (UBC); UBC Program Director Addiction Psychiatry, Vancouver, BC
- Stanley Kutcher, Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Center, Halifax, NS
- Ashok Malla, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology, McGill University; Director, Prevention and Early intervention Program for Psychoses, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montréal, QC
- Husseini K. Manji, Global Therapeutic Area Head, Neuroscience Research & Development, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals Group, NJ, USA
- Anthony Phillips, Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia; Senior Scientist, UBC-VCHRI Brain Research Centre, Vancouver, BC
- Delbert Robinson, Professor of Psychiatry and of Molecular Medicine, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, NY, USA
- Nina R. Schooler, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Peter Szatmari, Chedoke Health Corporation Chair in Child Psychiatry Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
- Gustavo Turecki, Professor and Vice-Chair, Research and Academic Affairs, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University; Director, McGill Group for Suicide Studies; Head, Depressive Disorders Program; Douglas Mental Health Institute, Montréal, QC
- Robert B. Zipursky, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
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