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Public talk: The Causes of Schizophrenia: The Questions You Have Always Wanted to Ask

October 20, 2009

CAMH's Schizophrenia Program and the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario present:
"The Causes of Schizophrenia: The Questions You Have Always Wanted to Ask"

A public talk with Dr. Kwame McKenzie on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 7 pm to 9 pm at The Meeting Centre, CAMH (room: 2029), 33 Russell St, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON

Dr. McKenzie is the Deputy Director of Continuing and Community Care for the Schizophrenia Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is a psychiatrist, researcher, policy advisor and broadcaster. He has worked in the field of the causes of mental health problems and multi-cultural mental health for 20 years and has published over 100 articles and 4 books. His work spans basic science and applied policy research with experience in Europe, the Caribbean, UK and US.

Dr. McKenzie is also the Director of the Canada Institutes of Health Research Social Aetiology of Mental Illness Training Centre and Senior Scientist of Social Equity and Health Research. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and sits on the Service System Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

For more information please contact Kate Kitchen at 416-535-8501, ext. 6247 OR Kayla Nicholls at 416-449-6830, ext. 229.

 

 

 

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