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November 21th, 2008

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  1. REMINDER: COMING UP NEXT WEEK. REGISTER NOW!
    Dept. of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto:
    8th Official Book Launch
    Special Guest: Norman Doidge, MD, Author of “The Brain That Changes Itself” presents “On Writing”
    (Event: November 27, 2008)
     

    2. Opportunities

  2. CAN-ADAPIT:
    Seed Grant Opportunity
     

    3. Newest Course and Event Announcements

  3. PLEASE NOTE: Event Time and Venue have changed.
    York University and CAMH Archives:
    Fragments of a History of Psychotherapy
    Presented by Dr. Sonu Shamdasani, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London
    (Event: November 25, 2008)
     
  4. Hospital for Sick Children:
    Psychiatry Rounds: "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Clinical Phenotype and Neuroanatomic Underpinnings"
    Joanne Rovet, PhD; Senior Scientist, Professor of Paediatrics and Psychology; SickKids Hospital
    Ellen Fantus D.Ps., C.Psych; Staff Psychologist and affiliated with the Mother Risk Program, SickKids Hospital; Coordinator of the Developmental Evaluation and Consultation Team; Thistletown Regional Mental Health Centre
    (Event: November 27, 2008)
     
  5. Centre for Addiction & Mental Health:
    Grand Rounds: "Continuous Quality Improvement in ECT at CAMH: What do we know about what we do?"
    Presented by Cara Brown, MD, Resident in Psychiatry, UofT;
    Summer Tomaszek, MD, Resident in Psychiatry, UofT
    Daniel Blumberger, MD, FRCPC Brain Stimulation and Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow, CAMH
    Z. Jeff Daskalakis, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Assoc. Prof. of Psychiatry, UofT; Director, Brain Stimulation Treatment & Research Program, CAMH
    (Event: November 28, 2008)
     
  6. CAMH and Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Education & Professional Development, Univ. of Toronto:
    Intermediate Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IIPT)
    Instructors: Paula Ravitz, MD, FRCPC; Laurie Gillies, PhD CPsych; and Ed McAnanama, MSc, M.Ed. OT. Reg (Ont.)
    (Event: Six monthly evening sessions starting on January 29th, 2009)
     

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  • CAN-ADAPTT Seed Grant Opportunity

    Application Deadline: December 12, 2008

    We invite Canadian individuals and groups committed to tobacco control to apply for CAN-ADAPTT's Seed Grant Competition. Awards of up to $5,000 are available to facilitate the preparation of a grant proposal in tobacco control research. The proposal could address the suggested topics below or another research question, need and or gap in current practice guidelines identified by practitioners.

      This program will be of interest to:
    • Practitioners
    • Healthcare/service providers
    • Investigators/researchers
    • Policy-makers
    • Decision-makers
      Suggested Topics:
    • Counseling and psychosocial treatment (e.g., screening and assessment, treatment structure and intensity, treatment elements, etc.)
    • Medications (e.g., first-line medications including bupropion, nicotine replacement therapy, varenicline; second-line medications including clonidine, nortriptyline; combination medications)
    • Specific Populations (e.g., children and adolescents, light smokers, pregnant smokers, etc.)
    • Population-level approaches to cessation (e.g., population-level interventions, mass media education, increasing unit price of tobacco, restricting access to tobacco, etc.)
    • System-level approaches to cessation (e.g., clinician/practitioner training, providing cessation treatment as a covered health benefit, etc.)

    Short History:
    The CAN-ADAPTT Project is Canadian Action Network for the Advancement, Dissemination and Adoption of Practice-informed Tobacco Treatment. The planning for CAN-ADAPTT began in 2007 and it soon became a Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) committed to facilitating research and knowledge exchange among those who are in positions to help smokers make changes to their behaviour (e.g., practitioners, healthcare/service providers) and researchers in the area of smoking cessation. CAN-ADAPTT is designed to engage practitioners and health care/service providers in a "bottom-up" process whereby research questions arise from front-line practice, positioning the research to produce results that are clinically relevant and readily usable. The project has a national scope with support for infrastructure in 3 provinces (Alberta, Ontario and Quebec).

    For further details on the suggested format for your proposal, contact our Coordinating Centre

    Virginia Chow
    Manager, Network Activities Tel: (416) 535-8501 x 7408
    175 College Street Fax: (416) 599-8265
    Toronto, ON M5T 1P7 Email: virginia_chow@camh.net
    Website: www.can-adaptt.net

    Production of this funding opportunity has been made possible through a financial contribution from the Tobacco Control Programme, Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.

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    TAPSCOTT CHAIR IN SCHIZOPHRENIA STUDIES
    AND HEAD, SCHIZOPHRENIA PROGRAM

    The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto is conducting a search for the joint position of Tapscott Chair in Schizophrenia Studies and Head of the Schizophrenia Program. The position is situated at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

    The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto has one of the largest concentrations of faculty and students in the mental health field in the world. Academic activities are organized into 14 priority programs including schizophrenia (http://www.utpsychiatry.ca). The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is Canada's leading addictions and mental health facility, fully affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and designated as a centre of excellence by the World Health Organization (http://www.camh.net). It enjoys a high profile international reputation and plays a key role in influencing health policy at all levels of government.

    The successful candidate will be a productive clinician-scientist. He/she will be responsible for developing a strong interdisciplinary university program in schizophrenia research (basic, clinical and population) and education with a centre of excellence at CAMH. Overall success will be measured by the evolution of a stimulating academic program, characterized by recruitment and retention of productive faculty members, external funding and peer-reviewed publications and the active participation of students and fellows. The successful candidate will be a senior clinician-scientist with a strong record of independent scholarship in the schizophrenia field and with evidence of success in providing leadership and educating and mentoring students and junior faculty members. He/she will be eligible for an academic appointment at the Professor or Associate Professor level.

    Please reply with a letter of interest and current curriculum vitae to: Dr. Donald A. Wasylenki, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, CAMH-College Site, 250 College Street, Suite 835, Toronto, ON CANADA M5T 1R8.

    The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2009.

    The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community. The University especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.

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    DEPARTMENT OF
    PSYCHIATRY & MENTAL HEALTH
    HUMBER RIVER REGIONAL HOSPITAL

    CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRISTS
     (Fulltime and Part-time)

    The Department of Psychiatry at Humber River Regional Hospital is seeking a child and adolescent psychiatrist, both fulltime and part-time.  The Child and Adolescent Program provides inpatient services (6 beds), as well as extensive transition and outpatient services, and 24-hour ER crisis intervention.

    The Department of Psychiatry is part of the University of Toronto teaching network.  This position may include medical teaching at all levels.

    The successful applicants will join a group of 23 psychiatrists and three general practitioners, the majority of them hospital-based.  The vacant positions are supported by generous sessional allocations, as well as hospital practice support.

    For further information and applications please contact:

           Dr. A.George Awad
           Chief of Psychiatry and Professor Emeritus,
           Univ. of Toronto
           Humber River Regional Hospital – Keele Site
           2175 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M6M 3Z4
           E-mail:  gawad@hrrh.on.ca
           Tel:  416-658-2012
           Fax:  416-658-2015


     

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    The Department of Psychiatry at Women’s College Hospital is offering a one year funded fellowship to MD or PhD candidates seeking advanced training in HIV and women’s mental health.

    Applicants must have successfully completed their RCPSC psychiatry specialty examinations and be a member in good standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario by the date of commencement of the fellowship.  PhD candidates must have completed the requirements of their PhD program prior to starting the fellowship.

    The fellowship will include a mix of clinical and academic activities. The specific time allocation is negotiable, but ordinarily, fellows spend at least 75% of their time in scholarly pursuits.  Clinical work will focus on women’s mental health and may be spent with any one of the four existing programs in the Department of Psychiatry: General Psychiatry, Mental Health in Medicine, Reproductive Life Stages, or Trauma Therapy.  Alternatively, the successful applicant may wish to work jointly between two programs.  The academic component of the fellowship will include the design and completion of a research or other scholarly project suitable for publication.  Topics for this project should be directly related to the aforementioned clinical themes of the department.  Suitable research areas may include: fertility and family planning in persons infected with HIV, HIV and trauma in women, or pregnant women with HIV and mood or anxiety symptoms. Other potential topics can be considered and should be negotiated directly with the supervisor.

    Interested candidates may apply for one year of funding beginning July 1, 2009 or another mutually agreed upon date. Internal funding will be subject to the rules of the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry fellowship program. (Please see: http://www.utpsychiatry.ca/ Go to ‘Education’ and scroll down to ‘fellowship program’ for information regarding the program.)

    Interested applicants should send a cover letter and CV by January 1, 2009 to:
    Pam Kavanagh
    Department of Psychiatry, Women’s College Hospital
    76 Grenville Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1B2
    Email: pam.kavanagh@wchospital.ca or Tel : 416-323-6400 Ext. 4381.

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    • December 2008

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    Women's College Hospital
    Department of Psychiatry
    Grand Rounds
    Noon to 1 PM
    East Wing, Room E934
     

    Date: (THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.)
    Friday, December 5, 2008
    Topic: “Update in internal medicine”
    Speaker:     Steve Shadowitz, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, U of T, Head, Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook HSC

     
    This is an accredited group learning activity eligible for RCPSC MOC.

    Pamela Kavanagh
    Manager, Medical Partnership
    Women's Mental Health Program
    Women's College Hospital
    76 Grenville Street, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON M5S 1B2
    Telephone: 416-323-6400, Ext. 4381
    Fax: 416-323-7718
    pam.kavanagh@wchospital.ca

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