Collaborations and Partnerships

Dr. Tonia Nicholls

• Professor: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
• Joint Appointment: School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
• Adjunct Appointment: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Simon Fraser University
• Distinguished Scientist: Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, British Columbia Mental Health & Substance Use Services

Dr. Michael Krausz

• Professor: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
• Founding Fellow: Institute of Mental Health, University of British Columbia
• Program Director: Addiction Psychiatry for the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
• Senior Scientist: Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences

Dr. Lakshmi Yatham

• Professor and Head: Department  of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
• Director: Institute of Mental Health, University of British Columbia
• Regional Head and Regional Program Medical Director: Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Healthcare
• President: World Federation of Societies for Biological Psychiatry

Dr. Ashok Krishnamoorthy

• Clinical Associate Professor: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
• Head: Department of Psychiatry, Richmond General Hospital
• Medical Director: Mental health and Substance use, Richmond General Hospital
• Program Director: Geriatric Psychiatry Subspecialty Residency Program, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Dr. Alasdair Barr

• Associate Professor: Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
• Affiliation: British Columbia Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Dr. William Panenka

• Assistant Professor: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
• Affiliations: British Columbia Mental Health and Substance Use Services and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health

Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

• Assistant Professor: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
• Director: The Non-Invasive Neurostimulation Therapies Laboratory, University of British Columbia

Dr. Ruth Lavergne

• Assistant Professor: Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
• Faculty Member: Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity

Dr. Marius Welgemoed

• Clinical Instructor: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
• Head: Department of Psychiatry, Sechelt Hospital

Dr. James MacKillop

• Professor: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
• Director: Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research
• Co-Director: Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research

Dr. Agnes Grudniewicz

• Assistant Professor: Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
• Scientist: Institut du savoir Montfort

Dr. Frances Levin

• Kennedy-Leavy Professor of Psychiatry: Division of Substance Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, Irving Medical Center, Columbia University, United States of America
• Chief: Division on Substance Use Disorders, New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University, United States of America

Dr. Tom Froese

• Assistant Professor: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan
• Director: Embodied Cognitive Science Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan

Susana Ramírez-Vizcaya

• Ph.D. Candidate: Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México
• Special Research Student: Embodied Cognitive Science Unit, Okinawa Institute of Technology and Science

Dr. Christoph Dilg

• Physician: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Bonn, German

Dr. Myriam Juda

• Adjunct Professor: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Simon Fraser University