Leslie Buckley is currently a Psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto. Following the completion of her MD from McMaster University she undertook an MPH in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health in an effort to marry psychiatry and public health interests. Leslie hopes to use skills obtained in health economics, political action and management within the realm of public health psychiatry. Past research includes a project involving child poverty and reviewing the effectiveness of preventive interventions for Children at Risk.

Within in the realm of public health psychiatry, Dr. Buckley is particularly interested in the social determinants of mental health and effectively facilitating the translation of information and evidence through advocacy, into action and policy.

Ongoing Projects

• Current research within the Health Systems Research and Consultation Unit involves the evaluation of a research transfer training program, the goal of which is to train mental health researchers how to successfully inform and influence policy decision-makers through strategically sharing the results of their research.

Paul Kurdyak is a psychiatry resident in his final year of training. He will be a research fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health once he graduates. He is enrolled in the Clinical Epidemiology graduate program of the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. His research interest is determining the impact of guideline-concordant medication management of depression on service utilization rates.

Research Interest

• Paul's current project involves using a large administrative dataset from the province of British Columbia. His research question is to determine whether patients who receive a minimum guideline-level standard of medication management use less health service resources, and thus incur greater cost savings to the system, than depressed patients who do not receive such care.

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