News Highlights at the Centre: At the Centre Fall 2003

At the Centre

Launch of new Web site

In mid-November, CAMH launched its transformed and redesigned Web site at www.camh.net. The primary focus of the redesigned site is to be easily accessible and to provide a comprehensive source of on-line addiction and mental health information for clients, families, health care and other professionals and the public, while reflecting the mission, values, accomplishments and services of CAMH. As reported in the previous At the Centre, CAMH also recently launched the R. Samuel McLaughlin Addiction and Mental Health Information Centre, which will have a major presence on the new Web site.

New Additions to CAMH's Senior Management team

• Dr. Trevor Young
  CAMH announced the appointment of its new Physician-in-Chief, Dr. Trevor Young, effective September 1. Dr. Young has been with CAMH since August 2002 as the Clinical Director of the Mood and Anxiety Program. He is the Cameron Wilson Chair in Depression Studies and Professor, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Young has just received the Douglas Utting Award, "offered annually to an individual, working in Canada, who has made a significant contribution to the study, understanding, or treatment of depressive disorders." The medal and an award of $7,500, which will be directed towards research, were presented to him at a ceremony on November 10 at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, where the award is based.
• Dr. Shitij Kapur
  Dr. Shitij Kapur has been appointed Vice President of Research. Dr. Kapur has been with CAMH since 1995 and is currently the Canada Research Chair for Schizophrenia and Therapeutic Neuroscience, a Research Scientist with the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Centre, the former Section Head for Schizophrenia Research at CAMH, and currently a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His main areas of research interest are in the use of PET imaging and animal models to understand the basis of psychosis and its treatment.

Jean Simpson Artists' Studio

Work will begin soon on a new artists' studio at the Queen Street site named after the former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Jean Simpson, who retired in June. Patient care and well being were a top priority for Jean, and she was a strong advocate of CAMH's strategic direction of client-centred care. The studio will be located in the vestibule of the Community Centre mezzanine and will provide a free, permanent studio space for 30 artists per year on an equal opportunity basis to create work in a safe, professional and functional environment. More information on the studio opening will follow in the next issue.

Holiday greeting cards that make a difference

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation invites you to send your family and friends holiday greeting cards to help in the fight against addiction and mental illness and the stigma attached to them.
We are pleased to present illustrations by artists who have received services from CAMH. By choosing our cards, you support the important care, research, education, health promotion and prevention carried out by CAMH, and you help to create a better world for the one in four Canadians who will face these illnesses during their lifetime.

Inside of card: Best Wishes for the Holiday Season and a Happy, Healthy New Year. Cards are $12 for 10 cards. For information about how to order, visit our Web site at www.camh.net/foundation or contact 416-535-8501, ext. 6169, or email Lidia_franchitto@camh.net.

New Chair appointed

Jüergen Rehm has been appointed inaugural joint University of Toronto/CAMH Chair in Addictions Policy, as of September 1. At CAMH, Jüergen will be based in the research program working within the Social, Policy and Prevention department.

The Chair will facilitate leading-edge research and education in addiction policy among scientists at CAMH, academic colleagues and related university departments. This work will encompass the broad determinants of health, innovative approaches for health promotion and disease prevention, and the quality and cost of improved models for health care.

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity - Research and Public Policy

A new book from Oxford University Press, sponsored by the WHO, looks at the adverse impact alcohol has on many aspects of life. It describes recent advances in alcohol research and identifies policies and prevention strategies that address the problems it causes. The book's 15 international authors include three from Canada -- CAMH researchers, Norman Giesbrecht, Katharine Graham and Jüergen Rehm. It can be ordered through Oxford University Press, 2001 Evans Road, Cary, North Carolina 27513 USA, or by email: medical@oup-usa.org and costs approximately $60 Cdn. (27.50 pounds sterling).

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