Dr. David Streiner is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. He began there in 1968 and has a joint appointment in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Between 1998 and 2008, he was the Assistant V.P. Research and founding Director of the Applied Research Unit at the Baycrest Centre, and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Although trained as a clinical psychologist, he has achieved international recognition as a statistician and epidemiologist, and has ...

Sean B. Rourke is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Scientist at St. Michael's Hospital, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and Scientific and Executive Director of the Ontario Ministry of Health AIDS Bureau-funded Ontario HIV Treatment Network, a leading research and policy organization in Canada. He is also the Director of three national centres funded by CIHR, the CIHR Centre for Reach on HIV/AIDS (for population health and health services), CBR Collaboration Centre for HIV, and Universities Without Walls (a CIHR STIHR that is training the next generation of HIV researchers in ...

Professor, Department of Psychology, Western University

Dr. Neufeld is internationally recognized as a pioneer in applying mathematical methods to measure and study cognitive functioning in mental disorders, notably schizophrenia, and for inaugurating a comprehensive chaos-theory model of stress and coping, applicable to normal and clinical populations. Dr. Neufeld is credited for adapting mathematical methods to: translate research findings from groups of subjects to individual patients, evaluate the efficiency of treatment programs in improving cognitive functioning of treated groups, monitor the cognitive functioning of individual patients over ...

Maryse Lassonde est une chercheure reconnue mondialement pour ses travaux quasi-pionniers sur le développement cognitif de l’enfant ayant subi des atteintes au cerveau. Détentrice d’un doctorat de l’Université Stanford, obtenu à l’âge de 23 ans, elle a depuis contribué de façon remarquable au développement d’une nouvelle discipline, soit celle de la neuropsychologie de l’enfant. En particulier, elle a investigué les effets de l’épilepsie infantile et ceux résultant de commotions cérébrales suite à l’exercice de sports. Détentrice d’un grand nombre de prix, incluant une Chaire de Recherche du ...

Research Chair & Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Regina

Thomas Hadjistavropoulos is Professor of Psychology, University of Regina and Past-President of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). He is internationally recognized as an authority on pain among seniors and on ethical issues in health care with his methodologies now being applied by researchers and clinicians all over the world. He has shown leadership in the promotion of the health sciences at the local, national and international level and has been honoured through a long list of prestigious awards and distinctions including a Canadian Pain Society Distinguished Career Award, the ...

Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Calgary

Dr. Keith Dobson is one of the world's most highly regarded and influential clinical psychologists. His original scholarship, leadership, and advocacy in multiple areas have significantly changed the ways that practitioners help individuals who suffer from mental health disorders. He has refined models of, and evidence-based treatments for, clinical depression. His research on mental illness stigma has transformed perceptions and attitudes in both social and professional contexts and promoted best practices for stigma reduction. The mental health programs that he has helped to develop have ...

Full Professor, Universite de Montreal

Professor Crocker is a leading international forensic mental health scholar and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mental Health, Justice and Safety and Past-president of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services. She has been leading the most comprehensive national study on criminal responsibility en mental illness since 2007. Her research program addresses the needs of and services to justice-involved persons with mental illness and their loved-ones; individual and systemic barriers and facilitators of community re-entry; alternatives to incarceration; and ...

Professor of Psychology, University of Regina

Dr. Asmundson is a Registered Doctoral Psychologist and Professor at the UofR. He is Editor-in-Chief of two leading journals and serves on numerous editorial boards. His pioneering work on fear-avoidance in chronic pain and his shared vulnerability model of co-occurring PTSD and chronic pain have led to significant advances in understanding and treating these prevalent, disabling, and costly conditions. He is a FRSC, a recipient of the SOM, and was awarded the Molson Prize for remarkable achievements in the social science. He is actively involved in clinical research/supervision and has ...

Professor of Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Martin M. Antony is among Canada’s leading experts on the correlates and evidence basedtreatment of anxiety and related disorders. He has contributed over 300 peer-reviewedpublications and over 30 widely recommended books that have been translated into 20 languages.Dr. Antony has played a central role in the delivery of evidence-based mental health care in Ontarioas founding director of the Anxiety Treatment and Research Clinic and the Clinical PsychologyResidency Program at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, founding director of Toronto MetropolitanUniversity’s Psychology graduate ...