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June 2008:

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    April 9, 2008

     

    Dear Colleague,

    RE: CENTENARY GALA DEPARTMENTAL DINNER

    Please join us in celebrating 100 years of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto by attending our Centenary Gala Dinner on June 19th, 2008. This prestigious black-tie occasion will be one of the highlights of our Centenary year! We are honoured to have the eminent Dr. Harvey Stancer attend this centenary event. We will also be honouring our distinguished guest lecturers; namely, Dr. Martin Knapp, Dr. David Kupfer, Dr. Helen Mayberg, Dr. Laura Roberts and Dr. Nora Volkow. All Residents and Fellows in the Department are invited as we will toast our Centenary Resident graduates. The dinner will follow the Harvey Stancer Research Day, and various awards will be presented. This is an important event and I hope you will attend.

          Place : The Four Seasons Hotel, 21 Avenue Road, Regency Ballroom
                      Toronto, Ontario M5R 2G1 (Avenue Rd. & Bloor)

          Date : Thursday, June 19, 2008

          Time : Cocktails at 6:00 p.m., Dinner at 7:30 p.m.

    Each hospital setting is responsible for payment for tickets to the dinner for all faculty members in their hospital partnership. If you are not a member of a hospital partnership, the cost of the dinner will be $160.00 (which will cover the cost for our Resident and Fellow attendees). On this special occasion, partners and guests are invited to attend at a reduced cost of $80.00 per person. (*Please note: As in previous years, there will be a cash bar.) Cheques should be made payable to “The Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto” and sent to Marie Mara, Room 828, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: College St. Site, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8.

    Please R.S.V.P. by May 16, 2008 at the following link:
    http://www.utpsychiatry.ca/Dinner/gala_dinner-faculty.htm

    Yours sincerely,

    Donald Wasylenki, MD, FRCP(C)
    Professor and Chair
    Department of Psychiatry

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    • May 2008:

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    Listening to History – Centenary Audiotape Recordings

    In honour of the Department of Psychiatry Centenary this academic year the CAMH Archives has selected a range of archival audiotapes from its holdings, prospectively having professional and historical interest for our faculty, students and researchers.

    Originally recorded on reel-to-reel and cassette tape formats, the 30 seminars and grand rounds presentations listed here have been converted to digital media (CD or DVD) for ensuring preservation of their vital content and making them accessible on current playback equipment. Please e-mail to explore arranging an opportunity to listen to any of these recordings. More recent audio recordings of the Department’s History of Psychiatry seminars and other Centenary events – several still forthcoming during May and June – will be available at a later date.

    John Court, CAMH Archivist
    Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
    John_Court@camh.net

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    • April 2008:

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    Forensic Mental Health: where it came from, where it is going, and why it matters more than ever.

    Enclosed is the online version of an historical background article concerning our Department's Law and Mental Health Program (LAMHP), prepared by Christopher Webster and John Court, which was distributed as an illustrated pamphlet at the April 16th Centenary History of Psychiatry seminar exploring the theme, "Forensic Mental Health: where it came from, where it is going, and why it matters more than ever."

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    • January 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:

    Harvey Stancer Centenary Research Day - June 19, 2008
     

    I am pleased to announce that Dr. Harvey Stancer, distinguished Professor Emeritus of our Department who has been enjoying his retirement for many years and living abroad, has graciously accepted our invitation to present the keynote address, in honour of our Centenary, at the forthcoming 2008 Harvey Stancer Research Day, on Thursday, June 19th.

    From the early 1960s Harvey Stancer held the Department's first Professorship of Psychiatric Research, based at the former Toronto Psychiatric Hospital and subsequently the Clarke Institute, while instrumental in establishing our Psychiatric Research Division with post-graduate teaching. He was an early, eloquent advocate for more stringent research protocols and evidence-based knowledge. Harvey has recalled that his teaching approach involved routinely asking residents, "How do you know the drug is helping the patient? I'm the guy that said 'prove it' because that's an important question."

    Dr. Stancer established our annual Research Day, which was named in his honour at the time of his retirement. The Department's Centenary celebrations will culminate in June, 2008 with an expanded, three day-program centred around the 2008 Stancer Research Day, commencing with a public lecture by Dr. Helen Mayberg on the preceding day. On the day following our regular Stancer Day format -- greatly enhanced by a gala dinner in the Four Seasons Regency Ballroom -- four outstanding leaders in various fields of psychiatry from other universities will present lectures, followed by an alumni reception.

    Please plan to join us for these stimulating educational presentations on June 18th to 20th.
     

    • December 2007:

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    • November 2007:

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    The University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry
    www.utpsychiatry.ca
    Presents a Centenary Cultural Event

    SUMMER OPERA LYRIC THEATRE’s
    EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING
    Performed by baritone, Bruce Kelly

    Followed by Grand Rounds
    by Dr. Anthony Feinstein

    Thursday, November 22, 2007
    The Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis Street
    7:30 pm Doors Open
    8:00 pm Performance

     

    Summer Opera Lyric Theatre presents the Canadian Premiere of the staged version of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING. SOLT announces a performance of this extraordinary work on Thursday, November 22, 2007 for Department faculty, students and staff. This important musical and theatrical event complements the celebrations of 100 Years of the Department of Psychiatry and represents its Centenary Cultural Event. The performance will be followed by Grand Rounds led by Dr. Anthony Feinstein.

    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time. His charismatic and versatile musical personality, coupled with the world-wide spread of performances has meant he reaches an unusually large and varied public. General Director Guillermo Silva-Marin is “delighted that SOLT has the opportunity to present Maxwell Davies’ work, especially in the hands of such an artist as baritone Bruce Kelly.”

    A monodrama inspired by stories of Mad King George III of England, EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING is scored for a baritone with an extraordinary command of extended technique covering more than five octaves, and six players. Canadian star Bruce Kelly takes on the challenge of the mad king under conductor Jose Hernandez and stage director Guillermo Silva - Marin. The eight songs are all based on tunes played by an actual mechanical organ owned by George III which he used in an effort to train bullfinches to sing. The action unfolds as a soliloquy by the king, the players and the illusionary images of a mind ravished by Porphyria.

    One of the most highly-regarded baritones of his generation, Bruce Kelly has appeared as guest soloist with numerous orchestras including the Toronto Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Prague Radio Symphony and the Symphony of Kumming, China. International opera engagements have taken him to Moscow, Lieges, Avignon, Strasbourg, Nice and the major opera companies of Canada for leading roles in such operas as LA BOHEME, COSI FAN TUTTE, TANNHAUSER and ROMEO ET JULIETTE. Mr. Kelly is a member of the Vocal Faculty at Queen’s University.

    Admission is free of charge, however tickets must be pre-ordered. Tickets are limited to two per individual. To obtain tickets please contact the UofTtix Box Office at 416-978-8849 between 11 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday. The Betty Oliphant Theatre is located at 404 Jarvis Street in Toronto, near public transit but is not fully wheelchair accessible.

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    Thursday, November 22, 2007 (Performance for U of T Faculty)
    Friday, November 23, 2007 (Public Performance)
     
    Admission is free, however you must obtain a ticket by calling the UofTtix Box Office at (416) 978-8849 or visiting their website at www.uofttix.ca
     
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    Betty Oliphant Theatre:
    Parking Information for the Opera Event
    (Nov. 22 & 23, 2007)

    The Betty Oliphant Theatre is on the West Side of Jarvis Street (just south of Maitland Street).

    There is an underground parking lot just opposite the theatre on the east side of Jarvis (associated with 77 Maitland - an apartment building). Drivers will need coins to pay: $3.00 to get in and $2.00 to leave for a total fee of $5.00.

    If that lot is not appealing (or available); there are several small street level lots in the neighbourhood; the closest at Maitland and Church Street.

    There is a large above-ground lot opposite Wellesley Subway Station (Yonge and Wellesley) but that is a seven to ten minute walk away.

    • October 2007:

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    Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto:

    The first in a series of Centenary History of Psychiatry seminars was held at the Munk Centre for International Studies on October 17th. Dr. Paula Goering lead the seminar titled "The Incubation of Community and Cultural Psychiatry at the University of Toronto." Discussants included Dr. Donald Wasylenki, Dr. Stanley Freeman, Carmelina Barwick and Dr. Dan Blazer of the Duke University Medical School. The seminar was well attended followed by a nice reception. Thanks to all faculty, residents, fellows and staff who attended this seminar. The second seminar in the series will be held on November 14th and there are many more Centenary events coming up each month. Mark them on your calendars now!

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    Centenary Banners

    Many will have noticed our colourful Centenary street banners along College Street. The banners stretch between the University gates at King's College Road and the entrance to CAMH's College Street site.

    Look for the banners again in Spring 2008, when we wind up our Centenary year with our culminating events: Harvey Stancer Research Day, Gala Banquet at the Four Seasons Hotel, Centenary Lectures with Invited Guest Speakers and Alumni Reception. All are scheduled between June 18 - 20, 2008.

    The CAMH College Street site is also adorned with a vibrant Centenary banner over the historic PET Centre. This banner will remain in place until June 2008.

    • September 2007:

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    Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto:

    A special Centenary Autumnfest was held on September 19th in the town of Alton-Caledon. Daytime activities included hiking, yoga, swimming and spa treatments. The weather was perfect for the golf tournament held at the Osprey Valley - Heathland course. Everyone moved to the Millcroft Inn for a cocktail hour followed by a delicious dinner. Dr. Donald Wasylenki welcomed everyone and gave a nice speech. Dr. Shree Bhalero emceed the presentation of prizes for all participants. The evening was capped off with a friendly poker game.

    This is a wonderful informal social event held annually by the Department to bring together faculty, residents, fellows and staff. Thanks to everyone who came out to participate in this year's Autumnfest. There are many more Centenary events coming up each month. Mark them on your calendars now!

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    Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto:

    The Opening Centenary Welcome Reception was held on September 11th in the University of Toronto Medical Sciences Building. Department Chair Dr. Donald Wasylenki welcomed the crowd to this first event of the academic year celebrating the Department's 100th anniversary. Special guests President David Naylor and Dean Catharine Whiteside gave wonderful speeches and helped unveil a commemorative photo display that will hang in the Student Commons area for the year. Thank you to all faculty, residents, fellows and staff who came out to celebrate this event. There are many more Centenary events coming up each month. Mark them on your calendars now!

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    • August 2007:

    • July 2007:

    M E M O:

    To:

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

    From:

    Donald Wasylenki, Professor and Chair
     

    Re:

    Centenary webpage and logo
     

    As you should already be aware July 1st, 2007 marks the department’s Centenary year. Throughout the next several months various events and celebrations will be held to commemorate this milestone. To facilitate communications, we have created a Centenary webpage http://www.utpsychiatry.ca/centenary/ on our website. This will serve as the resource to find the latest announcements as well as all communications related to the Centenary. I would also like to encourage faculty to celebrate and promote the Centenary by making use of the department’s new centenary logo. This can be downloaded from the centenary webpage. Instructions on how to incorporate the logo to your email signature are also available there.

    Yours sincerely,

    Donald Wasylenki, MD, FRCP(C)
    Professor and Chair
    Department of Psychiatry
     

    Adding the logo to your email signature

      You can create custom signatures for different types of audiences.
       
    1. In Microsoft Word, on the *Tools* menu, click *Options*, and then click the *General* tab.
    2. Click *E-mail Options*, and then click the *E-mail Signature* tab.
    3. In the *Type the title of your e-mail signature or choose from the list* box, type a name for your signature.
    4. Under *Create your e-mail signature*, insert the text or pictures, or both, that you want to use for a signature. Use the formatting tools to apply formatting to your text.

      OR

      Copy and paste the logo and text below and edit as needed.

      Centenary Logo for email use

      Dr. Doctor Psychiatry
      Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
      1234 Street, Room 5678
      Toronto, Ontario xxx xxx

      Tel: 416-xxx-xxxx  


       
    5. Click *Add*.
    6. To create another signature, click *New*, and then repeat steps 3 through 5.

      *NOTE: The logo image will not appear if email message format is set to “Plain Text”. Change it to “Rich Text” or “HTML”.

      In Outlook -> Tools -> Options -> Mail Format (under Message format), under “Compose in this message format:” set to “Rich Text” or “HTML”

    Centenary Logo is now available

     
    Note:
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    *** PLEASE SAVE THE DATE! ***

    You are invited to the
    Department of Psychiatry’s

    OPENING CENTENARY RECEPTION

    September 11, 2007, from 5-7 pm

    Stone Lobby of the Medical Sciences Building at 1 King’s College Circle.

    Join us for this special event where a historical photo display of the departments 100 years will be unveiled.

    All members of the department (Faculty, Residents, Fellows and Staff) are invited to this celebration.

    *** MARK YOUR CALENDARS ***


     

  • M E M O:

    To:

    All Members, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
     

    From:

    Donald Wasylenki, Professor and Chair
     

    Re:

    Historical Vignettes for the Centenary
     

    I am pleased to introduce the first in a series of illustrated Centenary Vignettes that will appear monthly during the new academic year, 2007-08.

    These postings to our listserv and website will be modelled after the AJP's "Images in Psychiatry" series and the former "Historical Notes" feature of the CPAJ. As brief outlines they will contextualize a sampling of thematic historic images drawn from our first 100 years and, in this instance, from the lead-up era that gave rise to our Department's establishment in 1907-08.

    I would like to thank John Court (historian, assistant professor; John_Court@camh.net) for his scholarly and detailed work in preparing these vignettes. Please contact John or me with any suggestions or comments.
     

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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:

    Sharing Images in Psychiatry for Celebrating our Department's Centenary
     

    We are pleased to launch this light-hearted, interactive Departmental Newsletter feature for sharing historic, quasi-historic, vintage or otherwise memorable photos among members of our department.

    Please consider the enclosed notice, and take a few moments to shake the cobwebs off those old photos -- people, places, programs, and/or events that collectively will help to illustrate our history. We will be glad to borrow your prints or slides as a loan for scanning them, or your already-digitized versions as e-mail attachments.

  • M E M O:

    To:

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

    From:

    Donald Wasylenki, Professor and Chair
     

    Re:

    Faculty of Medicine Announcement: Department of Psychiatry's Forthcoming Centenary, 2007-08
     

    I am pleased to advise all members and friends of the Department that the new issue of the Faculty of Medicine's periodical, "UTMedicine," now being distributed, will carry a one-page announcement and preview of our Centenary celebrations, to take place in the coming academic year. A digital copy of that page from "UTMedicine" is now posted on the department website at: http://www.utpsychiatry.ca/centenary/Centenary-FacMed.pdf

    You will note that the right-hand side of this page includes a chronological listing of a brief, representative sampling of our historic milestones. Through reasons of space this published version has had to be shortened, with certain items omitted and others truncated. Accordingly I am pleased to provide the full-text version for your information, at: http://www.utpsychiatry.ca/centenary/1stCentury-list.asp

    If you do not customarily receive a copy of this twice-yearly periodical, as is evidently the case (for example) with hospital-based faculty members, but you would like to have a hardcopy of this issue, you are welcome and encouraged to contact Arlene Clement, Senior Communications Officer in the Faculty's Office of Advancement;
     

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    A Century of Learning, a Century of Caring

    The Department of Psychiatry’s First Century

    • 1907 -08 – C. K. Clarke appointed the first Professor of Psychiatry and head of the new Department of Psychiatry at U of T. Soon after he was also appointed Dean of Medicine.
       
    • 1908 – Clarke’s first two faculty colleagues were Nelson Beemer, Superintendent of Mimico (Lakeshore) Psychiatric Hospital and J. Gerald FitzGerald, clinical director at Queen Street. FitzGerald, who introduced C.B. Farrar to Clarke, went on to found the Connaught Laboratories and School of Hygiene, also later serving as Dean of Medicine.
       
    • 1909-13 – Ernest Jones (subsequently renowned as Freud’s biographer) operated Canada’s first outpatient psychiatric clinic in Toronto’s inner-city “Ward” community.
       
    • 1925 – The Toronto Psychiatric Hospital (TPH), for incipient mental illness assessment and intervention, opened at 2 Surrey Place as the departmental headquarters under Clarence B. Farrar, Clarke’s successor. Farrar had trained under Osler at Hopkins followed by postgraduate study with Kraepelin, Nissl and Alzheimer in Germany.
       
    • 1926  and 1931, respectively –  Commencement at TPH of undergraduate medical instruction and  U of T's postgraduate Psychiatry residency program.
       
    • 1947-67 – Aldwyn Stokes was recruited from the UK’s Maudsley Hospital to succeed Clarence Farrar as Head the Department and Director of TPH.
       
    • 1958 – J. Allan Walters of Toronto General Hospital originated and researched the concept of psychogenic regional pain syndrome, a.k.a. hysterical pain, concerning localized, specific physical pain that arose in part or entirely through the psyche.
       
    • 1960s – Harvey Stancer, now honoured through the department’s annual research day that he established, was awarded the first professorship of psychiatric research at TPH and subsequently the Clarke Institute.
       
    • 1961 – Oleh Hornykiewicz (who discovered the brain dopamine deficiency) reported that levels of serotonin are low in the postmortem brain of Parkinson patients, suggesting that a degeneration of serotonin neurones might explain the depression in Parkinson's disease as well as sleep and memory impairment, currently being studied by CAMH’s Stephen Kish. In 1967, Oleh began a long association with the Clarke Institute and University of Toronto, named professor emeritus in 1992.
       
    • 1966 – The Clarke Institute opened on College Street, in succession to the TPH. In 1998 the Clarke  merged with the A.R.F., Donwood and Queen Street as the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
       
    • 1974 – The Toronto General Hospital (TGH) Department of Psychiatry was renamed in honour of neurologist D. Campbell Meyers who in 1906 had established Canada’s first psychiatric general hospital unit, at TGH.
       
    • Beginning in the late 1970s, Paul Garfinkel and his colleagues established a program of treatment, research and training in the eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Toronto is recognized internationally as one of the leading centres in the world in the understanding and treatment of people with eating disorders.
       
    • 1980-90 – Department Chair Vivian Rakoff brought the PET brain imaging facility, the first in any psychiatric hospital in the world, to the Clarke Institute (opened 1992).
       
    • 1994 - Ontario Psychiatric Outreach Program established with Brian Hodges as director.
       
    • 1992-2006 – Drs. Kapur, Zipursky, Remington and Phil Seeman worked together on a series of studies that image the effects of antipsychotics which leads to lower doses and new hypotheses about the role of dopamine in the treatment of psychosis.
       
    • 1997 – Culminating four outstanding decades, Mary V. Seeman became the inaugural Tapscott Chair in Schizophrenia Studies. In 2001 Mary received the Canadian Psychiatric Association's Golden Award, and in 2003 an honorary Doctor of Science degree from this university, for her vital career of contributions to the advancement of psychiatric research and clinical practice. In 2002, Mary was awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal and in 2006 became an Officer of the Order of Canada.
       
    • 1998 – Helen Mayberg of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care was appointed as the inaugural Sandra Rotman Chair in Neuropsychiatry, pioneering with colleagues the use of neuroimaging to examine neural mechanisms mediating antidepressant response to various treatments, including pharmacotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy . The first hypothesized treatment for depression followed, based on neuroimaging using Deep Brain Stimulation, at Toronto Western Hospital with Lozano, Kennedy and McNeely.
       
    • 2000 – CAMH began a multi-year, phased redevelopment of its Queen Street site to establish a world-class centre for mental health and addiction care, education, research, health promotion and prevention, set within an urban village integrated into the surrounding community.
       
    • 2002 – The department launched its first formal clinician scientist training program to enable selected residents to commence/complete graduate degree training along with their specialist certification.
       
    • 2002 – Anne Bassett was appointed as Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Schizophrenia Genetics. Focusing on genomic instability, genetic syndromes and schizophrenia, Anne’s studies partly involve families, children and adults with 22Q11 Deletion Syndrome, and delineating a high-risk phenotype in familial schizophrenia.
       
    • 2006 – Graduation of the first residency class of the department's Toronto – Addis Ababa Psychiatry Project.
       
    • 2006 – Dr. Jeffrey Meyer’s research team demonstrated that MAO, an enzyme, is responsible for the chemical imbalance linked to major depression, also detailing a new monoamine model of this fourth-leading cause of death and disability.

    March 2007

    Donald.Wasylenki@utoronto.ca
    John_Court@camh.net