Research Trainee Event a Success

CAMH is home to more than 100 post-doctoral fellows and graduate research students.  These research trainees have interests that encompass science from the neuron to the neighbourhood. To help foster a sense of community amongst these diverse trainees, research staff and students joined together on November 22^nd for an afternoon of munching and mingling at the CAMH Research Trainee Welcome Event. 

Guests enjoyed the casual sophistication of the University of Toronto Faculty Club while taking the opportunity to connect with other Research Program trainees and to get helpful resources from the information tables.

Said CAMH’s Director of Research Training Dr. Leslie Atkinson, “this event was just one of many initiatives that will increase the profile of our research training strengths, and help enhance our ability to prepare future researchers to excel in an era of changing technologies and increasingly interdisciplinary research.”

Left to right: Shitij Kapur, Mario Masellis and Leslie Atkinson

One of the many highlights of this event was they keynote address by Dr. Mario Masellis. As a student, he worked with Drs. James Kennedy, Robert Levitan and Leslie Atkinson and had a very positive training experience at CAMH.   For Mario, “the most exciting thing about training at CAMH was the diversity. It was such an energetic and powerful group of people, and I had the opportunity to generate new ideas, and use these ideas to test new hypotheses. It was a very good training experience.”

The CAMH Research Trainee Welcome Event was a success. It was a pleasant way to greet and extend our hospitality to tomorrow’s scientists, and enrich their experience of being a research trainee CAMH.

Left to Right: Justin Sharpley, Tara Fidler,
Katharine King, Pat Erickson

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