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Ellen Corin, PhD
Dr Corin is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology based at the Psychosocial Research Unit of the Douglas Hospital. She did her graduate work at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and has extensive fieldwork experience in Central Africa. For the last ten years, she also pursued collaborative research in India. Throughout her research projects, she has developed methodological benchmarks for exploring subjective experiences in culture and identifying points of convergence and divergences between various actors' narratives. Her research projects revolve around the articulation of personal experience by culture, particularly in the case of psychosis. Dr Corin has four main research interests:
- culture and schizophrenia;
- Asceticism and limit experiences in India
- Art and psychosis;
- cultural systems of signs, meaning and practice related to mental health.
Dr Corin can supervise graduate and postdoctoral students. She is also chairing a team grant given in partnership with ethnic community groups in Montreal.
Anne Crocker, PhD
Anne Crocker, PhD, Douglas Hospital Research Centre researcher and assistant
professor of psychiatry, McGill University, joined the Douglas Hospital
Research Centre in 2002, after a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at
Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire. Her work focuses on the interface
between mental health and the law/violence. Although most individuals who
have a severe mental illness or an intellectual disability do not engage in
violent behavior, evidence has been accumulating over the past 20 years,
indicating that some of these individuals are at increased risk for criminal
and violent behavior. However, many individual, cultural and systemic factors
influence the nature and intensity of this relationship.
Anne Crocker’s research program focuses on two main areas of forensic mental
health:
- The identification of psychosocial factors associated with violence and criminality among vulnerable populations, such as individuals with a severe mental illness and individuals with an intellectual disability. She and her team are presently investigating the factors associated with violent behavior among individuals with an intellectual disability, who are living in the community. This three-year multi-site study is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC)
- The interface between the criminal justice and mental health systems (e.g. competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility and mental health services research).
She presently has a Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) grant to study factors associated with release decisions of individuals who have been declared non-criminally responsible, due to mental disorders, in three large Montréal institutions. This research program aims at furthering our knowledge regarding:
- the determinants of violent and criminal behavior among individuals with a severe mental illness or with an intellectual disability and
- the trajectories of these individuals in the criminal justice and mental health systems. This research will help better understand the nature and consequence of violent and criminal behavior among vulnerable populations, develop appropriate assessment methods and tools, and identify intervention priorities and orient policy making.
Pascale Des Rosiers, MD
Dr Des Rosiers is Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic, consultant to the Montreal General Hospital AIDS clinic, and consulting psychiatrist to the Emergency Clinic. She received her training at the Université de Sherbrooke and at McGill. Her clinical practice integrates transcultural and social psychiatry. She has done research on role strain and psychological distress among immigrant Muslim women. Her current interests include gender roles and issues.
Nancy Frasure-Smith, PhD
Dr Nancy Frasure-Smith is a Professor of Psychiatry at McGill, a Senior Research Associate at the Montreal Heart Institute and Invited Researcher at the CHUM Notre Dame. She has a cross-appointment in Nursing at McGill and in Psychiatry at the Université de Montréal. She completed her PhD in sociology at the Johns Hopkins University and postdoctoral training in psychology at McGill. Her current research program, carried out in conjunction with psychiatrists and cardiologists at McGill, the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Heart Institute, is concerned with:
- assessing the importance of psychological and social variables in the development and prognosis of cardiovascular disease;
- exploring physiological and behavioural mechanisms linking psychological and social variables with cardiovascular disease;
- developing and evaluating interventions to change the impact of psychological and social variables in cardiovascular disease.
Guillaume Galbaud du Fort, MD, PhD
Dr Galbaud du Fort, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill, is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist at the McGill University Health Centre, specialized in the psychiatric care of of oncology patients, and an epidemiologist and project director at the Jewish General Hospital Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Community Studies. He is involved in various research projects in the field of epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology in psychiatry, with his main topic of research being the development and assessment of instruments and methods for screening for depression in medically ill populations.
Kathryn Gill, PhD
Kathryn Gill is the Director of Research at the Addictions Unit of the McGill
University Hospital Centre (MUHC), and an Associate Professor in the
Psychiatry Department at McGill University. She obtained her Ph.D (1990) in
psychology, and conducted post-doctoral studies at the Alcohol Research
Centre, and the Addiction Research and Treatment Services of the University
of Colorado. She currently holds a Chercheur-Boursier career award from FRSQ
(Quebec), and divides her time between teaching at McGill University and
conducting research at the Addictions Unit and the Research Institute of the
MUHC.
Dr Gill's research program has been focussed on mental illness and substance
dependence; with projects completed in diverse areas including transcultural
psychiatry, psychiatric comorbidity and treatment outcome. Her clinical
research program is comprised of the following projects:
- mental health problems and substance abuse among Aboriginal peoples: relationship to early life trauma, physical and sexual abuse, associated psychopathology and barriers to treatment;
- substance abuse and schizophrenia: the impact of dual diagnosis on the quality of care for the chronically mentally ill;
- clinical studies on the treatment of substance abuse: clinical and biological predictors of outcome and the development of new psychological and pharmacological therapies.
Her basic research program is focused on examining biological and genetic factors that contribute to the development of addiction and mental illness. These projects include biochemical, behavioural and genetic studies on the pharmacological response to drugs of abuse, as well as an examination of serotonin synthesis in alcohol abusers using positron emission tomography (PET).
Ian Gold, PhD
Ian Gold, PhD, is the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Psychiatry. He has published papers in the philosophy of psychiatry and the philosophy of neuroscience, and his current research concerns delusion in psychiatric and neurological illness. Prior to coming to McGill, he worked at Monash University in Melbourne.
Natalie Grizenko, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Grizenko is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill, Medical Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Douglas Hospital, and Director of the Lyall Disruptive Behaviour Disorders Program. She received her medical training at the University of Sherbrooke and at McGill University. Dr. Grizenko's research interests are:
- ADHD
- risk and protective factors for psychiatric disorders in children and immigrants
- evaluation research of child day treatment programs
She can supervise trainees and graduate students from psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, and social services.
Danielle Groleau, PhD
Dr Groleau is Assistant Professor and research associate at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital. Dr Groleau is an anthropologist and received her PhD in Public Health from the Université de Montréal and postdoctoral training in Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University. She specializes in ethnographic and participatory research to study health behaviours that have implications for public health programming and health policy. Her current research interests are:
- psychocultural determinants of compliance after a heart attack among French Canadians
- psychocultural determinants of low breastfeeding rates among disadvantaged French Canadians
- cultural appropriateness of information on breast cancer risk for the Jewish community
Dr Groleau can supervise trainees and graduate students from anthropology, psychology, social work, social sciences, humanities, public health and medicine.
Jaswant Guzder, MD
Dr. Jaswant Guzder is an associate professor in the McGill Department of Psychiatry, head of Child Psychiatry and director of Child Day Treatment at the Jewish General Hospital, and an adjunct professor in the McGill Faculty of Education. She continues to serve as a senior consultant with the Cultural Consultation Service at the Jewish General Hospital. She is also a psychoanalyst and supervisor for the Art Therapy masters program at Concordia University. Dr. Guzder worked in Mumbai, India from 1980 to 1984. Her child and family practice in Montreal is multicultural. She has graduate students working with South Asian and African populations. Her current research projects are collaborations with:
- Dr. Phyllis Zelkowitz, Dr. Joel Paris, and Dr. Ron Feldman on borderline children diagnostics, follow-up outcome and risk factors
- the Culture and Mental Health research unit: consultant role
- Dr. Ellen Corin's project on the outcome of psychosis with South Asian immigrants
Gaston Harnois, MD
Gaston P. Harnois, MD, FRCP, is director of the Montreal Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for
Reference and Research in Mental Health at the Douglas Hospital Research
Centre. He is a psychiatrist and an associate professor of psychiatry at
McGill University. Active as an administrator, he is especially interested in
psychosocial rehabilitation, mental health policy formulation, and mental
health services planning, and development and evaluation at both the national
and international levels. At the international level, he has been a
long-standing member of WHOs Expert Advisory Committee in Geneva, and has
contributed extensively to WHOs programs, such as Nations for Mental Health,
as well as the current WHO initiative called Mental Health Policy Project:
Policy and Guidance Package. At the request of the World Health Organization,
the Montreal WHO Collaborating Centre, in cooperation with its partners, he
has been mandated to develop, on WHO's behalf, an Atlas of resources for
intellectual disabilities around the world. This effort will be published on
the occasion of a worldwide conference to be held in Bangkok in November
2007.
Gaston P. Harnois is a former president of the World Association for
Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR), as well as a former secretary of the
World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH). He is the recipient of the Quebec
Hospital Association Best Hospital Administrator Award, as well as of the
Heinz Lehmann Award from the Quebec Psychiatric Association. He has received
an award of excellence from the U.S. branch of WAPR, as well as the Phillip
R.A. May Award for Excellence in International Service from the Knowledge
Utilization Society.
His life-long commitment has been to the improvement of services and the
improvement of the quality of life, including access to work, for persons
suffering from serious mental illness. The main tools utilized have been
legislation, policy formulation, as well as technical cooperation in
different countries. He has always believed in the inherent potential of
persons with mental illness to improve and to play a useful role in the
community, if given the chance and proper treatment and support.
G. Eric Jarvis, MD
G. Eric Jarvis, M.D., M.Sc., studied medicine at the University of Alberta and pursued specialty training in transcultural psychiatry at McGill University. He is director of the Cultural Consultation Service, Team Leader of the First-Episode Psychosis Program, assistant professor of psychiatry at McGill University, and a research associate of the Jewish General Hospital. His clinical and administrative work is closely tied to his research interests: 1) the relationship between psychosis and culture and 2) the process of cultural consultation. Dr. Jarvis is also interested in cross-national comparison of psychiatric theory and practice.
Suzanne King, PhD
Dr King is a researcher at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre. She is currently completing a study aimed at increasing understanding of the ability of schizophrenia patients and controls to accurately perceive social cues, identify the emotions of a confederate, and attribute intentions to them, and to determine the kinds of neuropsychological abilities that underlie this capacity. As an extension of a recently completed pilot project, she is currently running a study whose goal is to understand the role of putative genetic and environmental etiological factors in determining family EE, illness presentation and outcome in schizophrenia patients. A new 2003 grant is permitting her lab to do the same study in people from the general population with varying degrees of subclinical psychotic symptoms. In addition, subjects from the general community will be matched to schizophrenia patients according to profile of risk factors, and the two groups compared to determine whether they differ in terms of stress reactivity (salivary cortisol) and/or coping strategies. Related to this interest in environmental risk factors for schizophrenia, a longitudinal study of the effects of stress on pregnant women who lived through the January 1998 Ice Storm, and on their babies, is in full swing with follow-up assessments of the children at age 5 years.
Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD
Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, is James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University. He is Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry, a quarterly scientific journal published by Sage (UK) and directs the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit at the Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal where he conducts research on mental health services for immigrants and refugees, psychiatry in primary care, the mental health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, and the anthropology of psychiatry. His current projects include studies on resilience among indigenous peoples, the usefulness of the cultural formulation in psychiatric consultation, and a cross-national comparative study of models of mental health care for multicultural societies. His past research includes studies on the development and evaluation of a cultural consultation service in mental health, pathways and barriers to mental health care for immigrants, somatization in primary care, the comparative study of psychiatry in Canada and Japan, cultural concepts of mental health and illness in Inuit communities, risk and protective factors for suicide among Inuit youth in Nunavik (Northern Québec), and the role of metaphor in psychiatric theory and practice. He founded and directs the annual Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry at McGill. He is also founder and Co-Director of the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. He co-edited the volumes Current Concepts of Somatization (American Psychiatric Press, 1991), Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (University of British Columbia Press, 2008) and Encountering the Other: The Practice of Cultural Consultation (Springer SBM). For further information see the description of the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit of the Jewish General Hospital.
Vivianne Kovess-Masfety, MD, PhD
Dr Kovess-Masfety is adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at McGill. She is the director of a Paris 5 university research centre in epidemiology and policy design in mental health which trains PhD students. She has extensive experience in psychiatric epidemiology and has been responsible for mental health surveys on large population samples in diverse places. She is a participant in many international surveys, European (ESEMED) and worldwide (WMH initiative). She has ongoing surveys in France and Europe and can supervise graduate and postgraduate students who want to conduct surveys or analyze data already collected.
Rita Kuyumjian, MD
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Dr Kuyumjian is Director of Postgraduate Education at St. Mary's Hospital, Department of Psychiatry. She received her medical degree in Armenia, and her psychiatry training at McGill. Her current interest is in establishing a link between McGill University and Yerevan State Medical Institute to develop and upgrade their Residency Program and Psychiatry Department. Dr Kuyumjian has clinical experience in treating Armenians. She can supervise rotations and trainees. Her special interest area is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Martine Lalinec-Michaud, MD, FRCPC
Dr Lalinec-Michaud is Associate Professor and psychiatrist at the Douglas Hospital. She has her medical degree from Paris. More than half of Dr Lalinec's patients in the inpatient ward are new Canadians. Her current research interest is the comparison of psychiatric presentation and family support in Anglophone and Francophone patients. She is interested in supervising trainees.
Eric Latimer, PhD
Dr Latimer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, and Associate Member of the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University. He is also Director of the Services, Policy and Population Health Research Theme at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre. A health economist, his research interests focus on community-based supports for people with severe mental illness, including assertive community treatment and supported employment. He also contributes economic evaluations of various interventions for people with mental illness. In addition, he is currently conducting research on the use of antipsychotic and concomitant medications in Québec.
François Lespérance, MD
Université de Montréal
Dr Lespérance is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist and researcher based at the Montreal Heart Institute. His major areas of interest are the interaction of depression with cardiovascular function and adaptation after heart attack, work on which he collaborates with Dr N. Frasure-Smith.
Karl Looper, MD
Dr Looper is a consultation and liaison psychiatrist at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, specializing in the psychiatric care of medical patients and psychosomatic research. Dr. Looper is an assistant professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Oncology of McGill University and receives research funding as a chercheur-boursier clinician of the Fonds de recherche en santé Québec. Dr. Looper has been involved in studies of somatoform disorders including somatization, hypochondriasis and medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes. He is currently the principal investigator of a study of mental health and family functioning in early inflammatory arthritis, and is involved in other research in medical populations including cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Toby Measham, MD
Dr Measham is lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry. She received her residency training in psychiatry at McGill and completed post-graduate work in cultural psychiatry. She is staff at the Transcultural Psychiatry Clinic of the Montreal Children's Hospital.
Klaus Minde, MD
Dr Minde is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, former Chairman of the Division of Child Psychiatry, and Director of the Anxiety Clinic at the Montreal Children's Hospital. He received his training at the University of London, University of Munich, and Columbia University. Dr Minde worked as a WHO consultant in Africa for over two years. Recently he has been engaged in a study examining the cultural perspectives of attachment behaviours in a South African township population. He also began a program to support grandmothers whose daughters had died of AIDS and who had to care for their orphaned grandchildren. This program is now one of only three programs in Africa funded by the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Dr Minde is presently also involved in a major developmental study called Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment (MAVAN) with principal investigator Dr. Michael Meaney, which examines the effects of maternal adversity on an infant's neurodevelopment and behaviour.
Lucie Nadeau, MD
Dr Nadeau is a psychiatrist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital where her clinical work is shared between the Transcultural Psychiatry clinic and the Consultation-liaison service, and an Assistant Professor in the department of Psychiatry at McGill University. She received her training in medicine and psychiatry at the Université de Montréal and McGill University and completed a Master’s degree in transcultural psychiatry at McGill. Her current research interests include the influence of culture and context in the treatment of minority youths suffering from chronic illness, the therapeutic process in clinical work with migrant children and youths, and the development of treatment modalities for these migrants. Dr Nadeau is also Member of the Groupe-Conseil on the prevention of suicide for the Attikamekw Community of Wemotaci.
Joel Paris, MD
Dr Paris is Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, and Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital. He obtained his psychiatric training at McGill. His research interests include:
- developmental factors in personality disorders (especially borderline personality)
- culture and personality
Current projects:
- risk factors for borderline personality disorder in children
- the biological correlates of borderline personality disorder
Duncan Pedersen, MD
Dr Pedersen is Assistant Scientific Director of International Programs at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre and Scientific Director of the Montreal-based WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health. A physician trained in public health, epidemiology and medical anthropology, he has an extensive fieldwork research experience in South America, mostly amongst indigenous peoples and the urban poor in Peru and Ecuador, the Andean region, the Amazons and Northeast Brazil. His current interests include cross-cultural, ethnographic and epidemiological research on structural violence and mental health outcomes, where the issues of stress and trauma-related disorders, collective suffering and coping strategies remain his most prominent concerns. He currently holds the position of Senior Editor (Medical Anthropology) for the renowned international journal Social Science & Medicine.
Amir Raz, PhD
Amir Raz, PhD, ABPH, is Canada Research Chair in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention at both the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and the SMBD Jewish General Hospital. He received his PhD in computation and information processing in the brain from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He went on to be a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Michael I. Posner at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He was then appointed to the position of Assistant Professor at Cornell University and subsequently at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including the 2006 Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders and the 2005 Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 30). Professor Raz is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychological Hypnosis. Having examined the safety and efficacy of psychiatric drugs across development, his active research interests span the neural and psychological substrates of attention, self-regulation, expectation, placebo, and consciousness. He is also conducting research into developmental psychopathology, the cognitive neuroscience of culture, authorship processes and atypical cognition. Using neuroimaging and other state-of-the-art techniques, his research elucidates the relationship between disparate attention networks and attentional planes such as hypnosis.
Charo Rodríguez, MD, PhD
Charo Rodríguez, MD, PhD, holds the position of Assistant Professor in the area of Health Services and Policy Research of the McGill Department of Family Medicine as of June 2003. She is also a Member of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, and a Collaborator of the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit. After seven years of clinical practice as general practitioner in Alicante (Spain), Charo developed her master studies in Public Health (Management option) at the Valencia Institute of Public Health. Charo also holds a Ph.D degree in Public Health (Health Organization option) with distinction from the University of Montreal. Her field of inquiry is critical management studies in healthcare organizations. Her current research interests include: organizational power, inter-organizational collaboration, organizational change, information technology, identity and organizational discourse. Dr. Rodríguez can supervise trainees and graduates students from medicine and allied life sciences, management, psychology, and social sciences.
Cécile Rousseau, MD
Université de Montréal - CDIM
Dr Rousseau is a research and clinical psychiatrist at the Montreal Children's Hospital where she directs the Transcultural Child Psychiatry Clinic. She received her training in medicine and psychiatry at the University of Sherbrooke, Université de Montréal, and McGill. Her clinical work is with refugee children and with torture victims. She also does consultation work for health institutions and school boards on refugee children. Dr Rousseau's current research involves refugee children and adolescents from Southeast Asia, Central America and Somalia. Dr Rousseau is available for research supervision of graduate students in the fields of applied social science, psychology, social work, and psychiatry.
John Sigal, PhD
Dr Sigal is Professor of Psychiatry, Consultant Psychologist and Research Associate at the Jewish General Hospital. He received his graduate training at the Université de Montréal. Dr Sigal has clinical experience with conducting diagnostic interviews with families from various cultural backgrounds. His current research interests are:
- adult consequences of being in an orphanage
- consequences of maternal preoccupation in children of mothers with breast cancer
Warren Steiner, MD
Dr Steiner is Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Training and Outpatient Psychiatry at the Montreal General Hospital. In addition, he is the director of Community Link Services at the MGH, a program which provides Assertive Community Treatment to individuals with severe and chronic psychotic illness. Dr Steiner is a director of TRACOM, a community-based crisis centre, and AMI-Qubec, a local NAMI affiliate providing education and services to families of the mentally ill. Areas of specific research interest include: family burden, community-based service delivery, quality of life for chronically mentally ill, and the use of advanced directives in psychiatry.
Brett Thombs, PhD
Dr. Thombs received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Psychometrics from Fordham University (2004), during which he did his clinical internship training at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. He subsequently did a year of postdoctoral fellowship training and was a member of the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Since September 2006, Dr. Thombs has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry of McGill University and the Jewish General Hospital. Dr. Thombs does research in behavioral health and cross-cultural psychology. His work in behavioral health psychology focuses on the illness experience of patients, including the etiology, assessment, and treatment of interrelated somatic and psychological symptoms that are common in medical illness, particularly cardiovascular and rheumatic diseases. An important part of his work involves the evaluation of behavioral health services, such as detection and treatment of depression. Recently, Dr. Thombs was the lead author of an international team that published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association about depression screening in cardiovascular care settings, which is a finalist for the 2009 BMJ Group Research Paper of the Year Award. Dr. Thombs has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, many of them in top medical journals, has served as a peer-reviewer for over 30 journals, and is on the editorial boards of 4 journals. Dr. Thombs is the principal investigator or a co-investigator on several grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé Québec (FRSQ). He was awarded a New Investigator Award from the CIHR (2008-2013) and a Chercheurs-boursiers, Junior I award from the FRSQ (2008-2012), as well as an American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation Health Professional New Investigator Award and the Canadian Psychological Association’s President’s New Researcher Award. His current research program is concerned with:
- assessing the relationship of psychological and social variables with prognosis in cardiovascular and rheumatic disease;
- measuring depressive symptoms in medically ill patients, including modeling possible bias related to symptoms that are common to both depressive and medical illnesses;
- developing and testing interventions that improve health management behavior among patients with depression;
- assessing cultural factors related to the utilization of medical and mental health care services;
- evaluating the cross-cultural validity of psychological assessment instruments.
Dr. Thombs is available to supervise trainees and students.
Ashley Wazana, MD
Ashley Wazana, an Assistant Professor at McGill University, is a clinician-scientist with a clinical appointment at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) and research cross appointments at the JGH and the Douglas Institute in Montreal. He currently works as a child psychiatrist at, having worked for more than two years on the inpatient ward at the Montreal Children's Hospital. He has also worked since 2001 as a regular consultant in the underserved community of Val d'Or. He has a double Master's of Science (McGill, MSc in Psychiatry, and Columbia, MSc in Epidemiology) and his research collaborations have included projects in New York, Paris and now Finland. He currently holds the 2009 McGill Chair of Psychiatry's Early Career Researcher Award. His research activities include:
- the early manifestations of psychopathology, the modulation of prenatal risk by genotype and parent-child interactions as well as the validation of research and clinical instruments of child psychopathology;
- the health of children with precarious immigration status;
- the relations between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently the Principal Investigator along with Klaus Minde, for the Psychiatric outcome module of Michael Meaney's Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment (MAVAN) cohort.
Allan Young, PhD
Dr Young is Professor in the Departments of Social Studies of Medicine, Anthropology and Psychiatry. Dr Young received his graduate training at the University of Pennsylvania and has studied traditional medical practices in Ethiopia and Nepal and conducted ethnographic research on PTSD in a psychiatric inpatient unit for two years in the US. Dr Young's current research interests are:
- culture and somatization
- the ethnography of post-traumatic stress disorder
- anthropology of psychiatry
Dr Young can supervise graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from anthropology and social studies of medicine.
Mark Zoccolillo, MD
Dr Zoccolillo is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University and staff psychiatrist at the Montreal Children's Hospital. Dr Zoccolillo received his psychiatric training at Washington University at St. Louis. He also completed a one-year research fellowship in child and developmental psychiatry with Sir Michael Rutter at the University of London. His research interest is in conduct disorder. His current transcultural research interest is in the comparative study of the prevalence, correlates and risk factors for antisocial conduct and substance use disorders in epidemiologic databases from five countries: USA, Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan and Korea.
- the relations between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently the Principal Investigator along with Klaus Minde, for the Psychiatric outcome module of Michael Meaney's Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment (MAVAN) cohort.
