*Supervisors listed below are approved Research Supervisors for the Psychiatry Graduate Program. However, please be advised that a number of faculty members in the Department of Psychiatry supervise students in other programs as well. Students outside the Psychiatry Graduate Program may refer to our Researchers list for other potential supervisors.
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jorge.armony [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Emotion, fMRI, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. |
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serge.beaulieu [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Affective Disorders, Bipolar Disorder. |
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david.benrimoh [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Schizophrenia, early psychosis, psychosis risk, rTMS, computational psychiatry. |
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marcelo.berlim [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Neuromodulation; mood disorders and suicidal behavior. |
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veronique.bohbot [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Auditory and spatial memory, virtual reality, plasticity. |
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linda.booij [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Eating disorders, including biopsychosocial mechanisms, early risk factors and predictors of treatment outcome. |
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diane.boivin [at] douglas.mcgill.ca Professor |
Sleep, circadian rhythms, affective disorders. |
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mark.brandon [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Neural circuits of memory. |
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Dr Marie-Josee Brouillette, MD, FRCPC marie-josee.brouillette [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
HIV and cognition, RASCH analysis, Interferon-alpha and depression. |
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alain.brunet [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. |
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nicolas.cermakian [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Circadian rhythms in the context of mental health and immunity. |
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Dr Eduardo Chachamovich, MD, PhD eduardo.chachamovich [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Social and clinical determinants of health in Aboriginal populations, mood disorders, suicide ideation and behaviours. |
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megha.chakravarty [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Computational brain anatomy. |
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dara.charney [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Treatment for alcohol use disorders. |
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Dr J. Bruno Debruille, MD, PhD bruno.debruille [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Cognitive and social neuroscience of consciousness and psychiatric disorders. |
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simon.ducharme [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Longitudinal changes in brain development; neuroimaging. |
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david.dunkley [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Interested in the role of cognitive-personality vulnerability factors such as perfectionism in depression and anxiety. His research examines stress, coping, and emotion regulation processes that might explain why personal standards and self-criticism dimensions of perfectionism are instigating and/or maintaining factors of depressive and anxious symptoms. His recent research has tested a single-session explanatory feedback intervention that delivers individualized feedback on perfectionism and daily stress, coping, and affect processes. |
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salah.elmestikawy [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Glutamatergic systems in the normal and pathological brain. |
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flemar [at] douglas.mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Organizational and adequacy of mental health services. |
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cecilia.flores [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Cellular and molecular mechanisms by which experiences in adolescence alter ongoing brain development, rendering individuals susceptible or resilient to psychiatric disorders. |
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guillaume.galbaud_du_fort [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Assessment of screening tools for depression in medically ill populations. |
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marie-claude.geoffroy [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Epidemiology of suicide and related mental disorders across lifespan. |
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bruno.giros [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Dopaminergic systems; neurobiology of schizophrenia and other psychopathologies. |
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gabriella.gobbi [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Mood disorders, Cannabis, Hallucinogens, Melatonin. |
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ian.gold [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Philosophy of psychiatry. |
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alain.gratton [at] mcgill.ca Professor (Retired) |
Function and dysfunction of mesocorticolimibic dopamine neurons. |
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Dr Brian J. Greenfield, MD, FRCP, ABPN brian.greenfield [at] muhc.mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Childhood suicide: genetic predisposition, disease pathways, treatments and predictive testing. |
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grinat [at] douglas.mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders. |
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danielle.groleau [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Qualitative methodologies; sociocultural determinants of health behavior; reproductive health; development and evaluation of school-based promotion of mental health and prevention of mental illness. |
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reut.gruber [at] douglas.mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Child development, sleep, ADHD. |
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lily.hechtman [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Attention deficit disorders in children, adolescents and adults. Treatment development and efficacy. Long-term prospective controlled follow-up. |
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srividya.iyer [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Youth mental health and early intervention for psychosis. |
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eric.jarvis [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Social psychiatry; first episode psychosis. |
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ridha.joober [at] douglas.mcgill.ca Professor |
Youth Mental Health and Early intervention, genetics and pharmacogenetics of psychiatric disorders. |
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sherif.karama [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Genetic and environmental effects of environment on brain development and corollary impacts of cognition. |
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laurence.kirmayer [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Cultural psychiatry; psychiatric anthropology; philosophy of psychiatry; mental health of Indigenous peoples, immigrants and refugees; global mental health. |
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rachel.kronick [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Cultural psychiatry, immigration policy, immigration detention, child and family mental health, asylum seekers. |
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marc.laporta [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Mental health knowledge transfer and exchange. |
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lise.laporte [at] muhc.mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Borderline personality disorder; youth protection services. |
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eric.latimer [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Mental health policy and economic evaluation. |
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martin.lepage [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Comprehensive research into schizophrenia and psychosis. |
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marco.leyton [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Neurobiology of substance use disorders, depression and personality traits. |
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eva.libman [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Sleep related aspects of behavioral medicine and health psychology. |
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michael.lifshitz2 [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Work combines phenomenology, neuroscience and ethnography to shed light on the plasticity of consciousness. |
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karl.looper [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Psychosomatic research of medically unexplained symptoms and somatoform disorders; psychosocial predictors of outcomes of major medical illnesses (cancer, cardiac, arthritis). |
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nancy.low [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Familial risk in psychiatric disorders. Phenotypic refinement of psychiatric disorders; comorbidities; mood and anxiety disorders across community, primary care and tertiary care samples/populations. |
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michael.meaney [at] mcgill.ca Professor (Post-Retirement) |
Biological basis of vulnerability for psychopathology. |
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toby.measham [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Transcultural child psychiatry. |
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naguib.mechawar [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Neurobiology of major depression and suicide. |
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maxime.montembeault [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Neurodegenerative diseases (primary progressive aphasia, frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer’s disease), Language, Social cognition, Emotions, Neuropsychology, Neuroimaging. |
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Dr Tina C. Montreuil, MEd, PhD tina.montreuil [at] mcgill.ca Associate Member |
Etiology of Anxiety Disorders, Intergenerational Transmission of Psychopathology, Mental Health Disorders Prevention, Emotion Regulation. |
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gail.myhr [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for psychosis and other mental disorders; |
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lucie.nadeau [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Culture and context in the treatment of minority youths suffering from chronic illness. |
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corina.nagy [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Molecular neurobiology of depression and suicide. |
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Dr Tuong Vi Nguyen, MD, MSc, FRCPC tuong.v.nguyen [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Behavioral and developmental neuroendocrinology PLEASE NOTE THAT DR NGUYEN IS CURRENTLY ON MATERNITY LEAVE |
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massimiliano.orri [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Risk and protective factors for suicide and self-harming behavior across the lifespan using methods from psychiatric epidemiology, developmental psychopathology, and behavioral genetics traditions |
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Dr. Lena Palaniyappan, MBBS, PhD lena.palaniyappan [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Youth mental health, Early intervention, Psychosis, Depression, ADHD, Neuroimaging, Brain Stimulation, Speech and Language, Machine Learning |
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michel.perreault [at] douglas.mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Evaluation of health service systems |
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myra.piat [at] douglas.mcgill.ca Professor |
Implementation Science, Mental Health Recovery, Equity, Co-Production |
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judes.poirier [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Genetics of Alzheimer's disease. |
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rachel.rabin [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Effects of drugs of abuse on cognitive function in psychiatric (e.g., schizophrenia) and non-psychiatric populations |
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soham.rej [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Geriatric Psychiatry, Randomized Clinical Trials, Technology-Assisted Behavioral Interventions (Virtual Reality, Zoom, Sensors, Phenotyping, Robots), Mind-Body Interventions (Mindfulness, Meditaiton, Yoga, Tai Chi, Exercise, Health Education), Psychedelic Therapy, Late-Life Depression, Anxiety, and Dementia. We often have post-doctoral, research assistant, graduate student, and volunteer positions available. If you are interested, please send your CV to Dr. Sekhon (harmehr.sekhon [at] mail.mcgill.ca) |
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Dr Johanne Renaud, MD, MSc, FRCPC johanne.renaud [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Studies on suicide risk factors in children and adolescents interventions, and trajectories of services studies. |
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jesse.renaud [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) intervention and training. |
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Dr Stéphane Richard-Devantoy, MD stephane.richard-devantoy [at] mcgill.ca Adjunct Professor |
Suicide, neurocognition, depression |
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pedro.rosa [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Translational neuroimaging of neurodegenerative disorders |
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zeev.rosberger [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Psychosocial issues in HPV screening, testing and the HPV vaccine; Screening for distress in cancer care; Fear of recurrence. |
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cecile.rousseau [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Cultural psychiatry; mental health and adaptation of refugee children and adolescents from Southeast Asia, Central America and Somalia. |
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jai.shah [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Early intervention, first episode psychosis, at-risk mental states, youth mental health, clinical staging |
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patricia.silveira [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Biology of developmental mechanisms in the risk for chronic adult disease. |
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lalit.srivastava [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Role of developmental mechanisms in the etiopathology of schizophrenia, brain dopamine receptor regulation, biochemical and genetic studies on neural cell adhesion molecules. |
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florian.storch [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Biological rhythms and psychopathology. |
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lea.thaler [at] douglas.mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Etiology, assessment and treatment of eating disorders. |
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brett.thombs [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Mental health screening, clinical trials, patient-engaged research, mental health in people with medical conditions, rare diseases, meta-research |
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leon.tourian [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Pain Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, ICU Psychiatry |
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nicolas.tritsch [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Parkinson's disease and mood disorders. |
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gustavo.turecki [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Clinical and biomedical research on major depression and suicide. |
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sylvia.villeneuve [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Multimodal imaging of the aging brain. |
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Dr Claire-Dominique Walker, PhD claire-dominique.walker [at] mcgill.ca Professor |
Early stress, maternal regulation and neuroendocrine development. |
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ashley.wazana [at] mcgill.ca Assistant Professor |
Early Manifestations of psychopathology; health of children with precarious immigration status; relations between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. |
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robert.whitley [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Recovery, Stigma, Men’s Mental Health, Veterans’ Mental Health, Qualitative Methods, Participatory Video, Religion and Mental Health. |
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sylvain.williams [at] douglas.mcgill.ca Professor |
Hippocampal rhythms, memory, and Alzheimer's disease. |
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tak.wong [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, stress; memory. |
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majid.mohajerani [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Aging, Cognition, and Alzheimer’s Disease. |
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harmehr.sekhon [at] mcgill.ca Associate Professor |
Intervention trials of digital technology to improve older adults’ mental health. |