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November 28th, 2008

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    Department

  1. Memo from Dr. Donald Wasylenki, Chair - Dept. Of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto:
    Awards and Honours
     
  2. Memo from Dr. Donald Wasylenki, Chair - Dept. Of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto:
    McGill University Survey
     

    3. Newest Course and Event Announcements

  3. PLEASE NOTE: This event has been cancelled.
    Women's College Hospital:
    Grand Rounds: "Update in internal medicine"
    Presented by Steve Shadowitz, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, U of T, Head, Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook HSC
    (Event: December 5, 2008)
     
  4. Women's College Hospital:
    National Day of Remembrance & Action on Violence Against Women: "Challenging Society’s Messages About Violence to Children & Youth: If not now, when?"
    Keynote Speaker: Linda Baker Executive Director, Centre for Children & Families in the Justice System
    (Event: December 5, 2008)
     
  5. Centre for Addiction & Mental Health:
    Grand Rounds: "Gene-Environment Interactions in First Episode Major Depression"
    Presented by Dr. Kate Harkness, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, Queen’s University
    (Event: December 5, 2008)
     
  6. Centre for Addiction & Mental Health:
    Addiction Rounds: "Are We Addressing the Needs of Addiction Clients Who Have Caregiving Responsibilities?"
    Presented by Christine Sloss, Ph.D., C. Psych, Family Addiction Service, CAMH
    (Event: December 5, 2008)
     

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    M E M O:

    To:

    All Faculty Members, Residents and Fellows, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
     

    From:

    Donald Wasylenki, Professor and Chair
     

    Re:

    Honours and Awards
     

    I am writing to announce a number of honours and awards achieved recently.

    At the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychiatric Association in September 2008, Ken Shulman received the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry Award for Outstanding Contributions to Geriatric Psychiatry. Sid Kennedy was designated a Fellow of the CPA and Martha LeBlanc, a U of T medical student, won the Coordinators of Undergraduate Psychiatric Education Best Paper Award for Medical Students.

    At the Faculty of Medicine Research Award Ceremony in November 2008, a number of Department of Psychiatry faculty members and residents were recognized as follows:

    • Gail Robinson, American Psychiatric Association Alexandra Symonds Award
    • Aristotle Voineskos, CIHR Clinician Scientist Phase 1 Award
    • Romina Mizrahi, CIHR New Investigator Award
    • Carolyn Dewa, CIHR Public Health Chair
    • Jeffrey Meyer, Tier 11 Canada Research Chair
    • Rohan Ganguli, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair
    • Andrew Paterson, Tier 11 Canada Research Chair (renewed)
    • Fang Liu, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Career Scientist Award
    • Vicky Stergiopoulos, Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Career Scientist Award
    • Amy Cheung, Ontario Mental Health Foundation Career Scientist Award

    Following a very successful five year review, Brian Hodges has been reappointed as the Director of the Wilson Centre for Research in Education in the Faculty of Medicine for a five year term beginning July 1, 2008.

    On completion of a search, Pier Bryden has been appointed to the Undergraduate Medical Education Faculty Lead Position for Bioethics and Professionalism in the Faculty of Medicine.

    I am sure that everyone will join me in congratulating these outstanding colleagues and in thanking them for their contributions to the Department of Psychiatry and the Faculty of Medicine.
     

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    M E M O:

    To:

    All Faculty Members, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
     

    From:

    Donald Wasylenki, Professor and Chair
     

    Re:

    McGill Survey
     

     
    Dear Faculty,

    I am writing to ask you to please help our colleagues at McGill University by taking five minutes to complete their survey.

    Donald Wasylenki, MD, FRCPC
    Professor and Chair
    Department of Psychiatry
    University of Toronto

    Dear Colleague,

    The use of placebos in clinical practice is both topical and controversial.  Please share your experience with us by kindly completing a 5-minute anonymous survey concerning your attitudes towards placebo use in medical practice.  This web-based survey has been approved for research by the Ethics Committee and is completely confidential.

    French:         http://tinyurl.com/McGillSondagePlacebo
    English:         http://tinyurl.com/McGillPlaceboSurvey

    Thank you for your consideration.

    Professor Amir Raz, Ph.D., ABPH
    Canada Research Chair in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention
    McGill University and SMBD Jewish General Hospital

    Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
    Duff Medical Building #103 at the Montreal Neurological Institute
    3775 University Street
    Montreal, QC H3A 2B4
    Tel: 514-398-3410 ; Fax: 514-398-8069
    URL: www.razlab.mcgill.ca

    Clinical Neuroscience and Applied Cognition Laboratory
    Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry at the SMBD Jewish General Hospital
    4333 Cote Ste Catherine Rd.
    Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E4
    Tel: 514-340-8210 ; Fax: 514-340-8124
    URL: www.jgh.ca/razlab

    Psychology: http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/faculty/raz.html
    MNI: www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/research/people/affiliates/profile_amiraz000
    Transcultural Psychiatry: http://www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych/publications/faculty/raz/

    E-mail: amir.raz@mcgill.ca

    • Newest Course and Event Announcements

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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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    • Opportunities

  • 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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    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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    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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    • Other Courses and Events

    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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    • March 2009

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