Appointments and Recognition - Research Annual Report 2005

Honours, appointments, recognition, endowments and new chair awards, 2004

Dr. Jean Addington organized and chaired the 4th International Conference for Early Psychosis in Vancouver.

Dr. Paul Arnold was awarded the Gregory M. Brown Graduate Scholarship. Dr. Arnold, a child psychiatrist, is a post-doctoral fellow at CAMH under the supervision of Drs. Peggy Richter and James Kennedy.

Dr. Anne Bassett was invited to join the 22q11 Deletion Foundation Medical Expert Panel, composed of distinguished international medical experts on 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.

Dr. Bassett, together with several other CAMH researchers, was  identified as one of the top researchers in the City of Toronto's Discovery District.

Dr. Ray Blanchard became President of the International Academy of Sex Research, a closed organization that elects members on  the basis of their publication histories. Dr. Blanchard presided over the annual meeting in Helsinki, Finland.

Dr. Bruna Brands was invited to be a member of the consensus panel at the Western Canadian Conference on Methamphetamine in Vancouver. The primary goal of the summit was to bring together people who work in health, law enforcement, policy, academia and social services, to develop a collaborative approach to the issue  of methamphetamine use and production in Canada. Vancouver Coastal Health, with support from Health Canada and others,  hosted the conference.

Dr. Eva Chow was selected to present her work on the psychosocial and occupational functioning in adults with 22q11 Deletion Syndrome as a platform presentation at the American Society  of Human Genetics Annual Meeting.

The Culture, Community and Health Studies section, under the  direction of Drs. Ted Lo and Samuel Noh, co-hosted the two-day conference on the Art and Science of Traditional Medicine at Ryerson University.

The Culture, Community and Health Studies section, under the direction of Dr. Noh, co-sponsored with the University of Manchester the first Conference of Cultural and International Mental Health Research.

Dr. Carolyn Dewa was asked to serve as the Research Manager of  the Taskforce on the Implementation of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Research Agenda on Workplace Mental Health.

Dr. Dewa, in collaboration with Drs. Alain Lesage, Jean-Yves Savoie, Remi Quirion and John Frank, co-edited a special issue of Healthcare Papers on mental health in the workplace.

Dr. Dewa co-ordinated a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Invited Workshop, entitled Mental Health in the Workplace, in Toronto. The 120 participants-who included researchers, policy makers, decision makers, stakeholders, workers, insurance companies, health care professionals and employer representatives-were asked to  recommend a set of research priorities in six streams consistent with the CIHR's goals of fostering excellence in health research and  promoting research that will have a positive impact on Canadians' health, economy and society.

Dr. David J. DeWit was appointed to Master's Membership in the Faculty of Graduate Studies for the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Graduate Program at the University of Western Ontario. The appointment allows for supervision of master's thesis students and co-supervision of doctoral thesis students.

Dr. DeWit was invited to speak at the first Annual Meeting of the Integrated Chronic Disease Prevention conference in Ottawa. He  presented a paper examining the impact of the school environment  on trajectories of growth in depression among youth.

Dr. Roberta Ferrence was appointed to a U.S. National Academies, Institute of Medicine Committee on Reducing Tobacco Use, which is preparing a major report to advise the nation on strategies,  barriers and consequences relating to tobacco use.

Dr. Benedikt Fischer was one of 15 invited participants in the 2004 symposium Leaders of Tomorrow hosted by the Partnership Group from Science and Engineering, in collaboration with the major federal research granting councils (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council [NSERC], the Canadian Institutes of Health Research [CIHR] and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [SSHRC]) in Ottawa. The symposium highlighted Dr. Fischer's multi-disciplinary work in the areas of addiction and public health.

Dr. Norman Giesbrecht was appointed to the Publications Board of the American Public Health Association (APHA) for a three-year term, 2004 - 2007. He also completed his term as immediate past chair and nominations chair for the APHA's Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Section.

Dr. Louis Gliksman was invited to serve on the Advisory Board  for the national evaluation of Canada's Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) project, sponsored by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Dr. Gliksman was invited to participate in the National Alcohol Policy Framework discussions in Ottawa. These discussions will provide the basis for a comprehensive National Alcohol Policy strategy.

Dr. Paula Goering's CHSRF/CIHR Chair's Program in Health Services Research, "Generating and Disseminating Best Practices in Mental Health and Addiction," was renewed for six more years. This unique 10-year award focuses on training, knowledge exchange and linkage (in addition to research). With this award, the Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit is becoming a leader in knowledge exchange and in research dissemination.

Dr. Goering was invited by the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario to speak on poverty, discrimination and mental health as part of his Shared Citizenship Public Lecture Series. This unique series of events brings some of Ontario's most innovative and important thinkers and practitioners together to discuss issues of contemporary public importance in an accessible, public forum.

Dr. Goering was honoured with the Canadian Mental Health Association Jubilee Public Service Award. This award was presented by the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario to recognize outstanding volunteers in public service.

Dr. Kathryn Graham was an invited plenary speaker at the Third International Conference on Nightlife, Substance Use and Related Health Issues, Club Health 2004, in Melbourne, Australia. She  presented the results of the Safer Bars outcome evaluation and made recommendations for making drinking establishments safer.

Dr. Graham was invited to present on barroom violence and strategies for preventing it at the National Drug Research Institute in Perth, Australia.

Dr. Sylvain Houle, Director of the PET (Positron Emission Tomography) Centre, was appointed to the National Research Council (NRC) Advisory Committee on TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics.

Dr. Houle was invited to speak at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Nuclear Medicine Society entitled "Illustrating the Potential: Pharmacokinetic Research."

Dr. Houle and colleagues were proud to announce the installation of the new Biograph 16 high-resolution whole-body PET/CT scanner acquired as part of the CAMH/GlaxoSmithKline collaboration.
Dr. Violet Kaspar was a member of a Peer Review Committee of  the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), evaluating grant applications submitted to the NIMH Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program.

Dr. Elizabeth Lin was one of two principal investigators selected  to lead the Ontario component of "Closing the Implementation Gap," a national project funded by Health Canada to develop quality measures for mental health care delivered in primary care.

Dr. Robert Mann was appointed to be the Theme Co-ordinator for the Societal Issues theme of the AUTO21 Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE). The NCE program is administered and funded by NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC, in partnership with Industry Canada.

Dr. Carles Muntaner received the Wade Hampton Frost Lectureship Award from the American Public Health Association.

Dr. Samuel Noh was invited as a consultant to the U.S. National Children's Study workshop, "Measuring Racial/Ethnic Disparities and Racism," launched by the NIH/NICHD (National Institute for Child and Human Development).

Dr. Arun Ravindran won the R.O. Jones Award for Best Research Paper from the Canadian Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Paula Ravitz received the Psychotherapy Award of Academic Excellence from the University of Toronto, Post-graduate Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. This annual award recognizes a  person's outstanding contribution to the Psychotherapy Program in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Jürgen Rehm, a Visiting Fellow of the Alcohol Advisory Council  of New Zealand, participated in a study on "Burden of Death, Disease and Disability due to Alcohol in New Zealand."

Dr. Rehm, with colleagues Dr. Norman Giesbrecht and Dr. Kathryn Graham, won first prize in the public health category of the  British Medical Association's book awards for 2004 for Alcohol:  No Ordinary Commodity.

Dr. Lori Ross was made an Associate Member of the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Ross was appointed to Assistant Professor in McMaster University's Department of Psychiatry (part-time) and received the Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's Ontario Women's Health Council.

Dr. Peter Selby's TUSP (Tobacco Use in Special Populations) Program collaborated with the Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative, Ontario Tobacco Research Unit and CIHR Strategic Training Program in Tobacco Research to organize the First Annual Invitational Meeting of Tobacco Control Investigators and Trainees - Building a Research Community. The two-day meeting gave researchers and students affiliated with the four organizations a forum to showcase current tobacco control research.

Dr. Selby's TUSP Program hosted a half-day professional development workshop, Writing Publishable Research Articles, for TUSP Fellows and other CAMH staff and students.

The workshop was facilitated by Sharon Nancekivell, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Communications in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and a freelance editor, writer and plain language consultant.

Dr. Selby led the Web-Assisted Tobacco Interventions (WATI) Workshop in Toronto. International experts in web-assisted tobacco interventions were brought together to discuss emerging issues in this field and begin to develop a better-practices model for WATIs.

Dr. Chekkara M. Shammi was nominated by the Professional Association of Interns and Residents of Ontario for an Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Denise Tomkins was invited to be a member of FITRAP  (Fitness-In-Treatment Research and Advisory Panel) at CAMH.

Dr. Rachel Tyndale was honoured with a Johns Hopkins Visiting Professorship at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Tyndale's review article, "Genetics of Alcohol and Tobacco Use  in Humans," was named among the "Top 5 Downloads" for Annals of Medicine for the previous year.

Dr. Hubert Van Tol became a member of the editorial board of the journal Synapse.

Dr. Sam Wells was an invited guest speaker at the international  conference Binge Drinking: Problems and Responses, in Bristol, United Kingdom. Dr. Wells discussed the Safer Bars program  that has been shown to be successful in reducing aggression in Canadian bars.

Dr. Trevor Young was honoured with The Douglas Utting Award,  a Canadian award granted annually for a person's contribution to  the study, understanding or treatment of depressive disorders.

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