Dr. Suzanne Allain
Dr. Allain is Director of the Rehab Unit at Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Dr. Allain is Coordinator of the Core Psychiatry Residency Program in Thunder Bay for the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry and Regional Coordinator of the McMaster/NOSM Psychiatry Residency Program. She sits on Postgraduate Psychiatric Education Committees for the University of Toronto and McMaster University, and previously has for the University of Western Ontario. She has been head of CME of both the Thunder Bay Medical Society and of the medical staff of Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital, and is Behavioural Science Coordinator of Family Medicine North.

Dr. Philip Merideth
Dr. Merideth is Medical Director of Brentwood Behavioral Healthcare in Jackson, Mississippi. He is Vice President of the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure, and a Clinical Associate Professor with the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. He has 4 boards, including Adult, Child/Adolescent, and Forensic Psychiatry Boards, and sits on several national committees, including the American Psychiatric Association Ethics Committee. He has international speaking and writing experience, is a Board Examiner for ABPN Child & Forensic examinations, and is also an attorney and law professor.

Dr. Yuri Metelitsa
Dr. Metelitsa has more than 30 years of experience as a clinical forensic psychiatrist and a researcher. Before moving to Canada in 1995, he worked at Serbsky Research Institute for General and Forensic Psychiatry (Moscow, Russia) were he held positions as Junior, then Senior Forensic Expert, Head of State Psychiatric Statistical Centre, Head of Forensic Psychiatric Division, and Head of Department of Theory and Organization of Forensic Psychiatry in former U.S.S.R. He was also a Full Professor of a Chair of Social and Forensic Psychiatry of Moscow Medical Academy. In addition, he was a leader of a group developing expert computer systems in medicine. He was a member of the Experts Croups developing the Draft of the first Mental Health Law (U.S.S.R.), the Draft of the Forensic Expert Law (Russia), and the Criminal Code of Russia. He was actively involved in teaching social and forensic psychiatry to forensic psychiatrists, psychologists, prosecutors and judges from the former U.S.S.R. From 1996 to 2004 Dr. Metelitsa worked as a forensic psychiatrist at Alberta Hospital Edmonton, and was an Associate Professor of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta. From August 2003 to August 2004 he was Director, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta. Currently, Dr. Metelitsa works in the Forensic Psychiatry Division, Regional Clinical Department of Psychiatry, Peter Lougheed Centre, Calgary. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Dr. Harsimrat S. Sandhu
Dr. Sandhu is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the James Fletcher Hospital in Newcastle, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, and Staff Specialist at Lake Macquarie Mental Health Services, University of Newcastle, NSW. His main field of interest is Adult Psychiatry, and he works with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and the RANZCP Advanced Trainees in Adult Psychiatry. His teaching activities include being Conjoint Lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Newcastle, NSW, and Site Coordinator of Training at James Fletcher Hospital.

Additional faculty from past conferences:

Dr. Lisa Andermann
Dr. Andermann is both a psychiatrist and an anthropologist, and has written on post-traumatic stress disorder in different cultures. She is an Assistant Professor in the Culture, Community, and Health Studies program at the University of Toronto, and works in the Psychological Trauma Clinic in Mount Sinai Hospital. She works with an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team serving a culturally diverse population with severe mental illness in downtown Toronto, and is a Board Member of the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture.

Dr. David Conn
Dr. David Conn is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. He is Co-Chair of the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health and Past President of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry. His academic interests include the psychiatric consequences of brain disease in the elderly, nursing home psychiatry and pharmacoepidemiology. He is the co-editor of three textbooks including "Practical Psychiatry in the Long-Term Care Facility: A Handbook for Staff."

Dr. Marshall Korenblum
Dr. Korenblum is Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre for Children, a children's mental health centre in Toronto. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. A practising child psychiatrist for the last 25 years, his area of clinical and research interest is adolescent depression. He is on staff at Sunnybrook and Women's College Academic Health Sciences Center, and consults to numerous agencies. For over 10 years, he was the Director of Postgraduate Education for the Division of Child Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and he was the Chairman of the Education Committee of the Canadian Academy of Child Psychiatry from 2001-2003. He was the co-producer of an award-winning educational video on Adolescent Depression, and has won numerous awards for his teaching. He has also been on TV, radio, and in the newspaper, speaking on issues relevant to the mental health needs of children.

Dr. Ken LeClair
Dr. LeClair is currently Chair of Geriatric Psychiatry at Queen's University, Clinical Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Program at Providence Continuing Care Centre in Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Le Clair is a graduate of Carleton University and obtained his medical training at the University of Ottawa, graduating Cum Laude. He has been involved in geriatric mental health for over 14 years as a clinician, educator, planner, and researcher. His major focus has been in service/learning, education of health care professionals, and health service innovation. Prior to coming to Queen’s, Dr. Le Clair was a member of the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster where he was the Head of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Vice Chair of the Academic Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences. He has been a consultant and advisor to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care as the Chair of Mental Health and Long-Term Care Policy Framework for Seniors with Severe Mental Illness, and is currently a member of the Provincial Advisory Committee, Alzheimer’s Society. Clinically, he was the former Chief of Psychiatry, Hamilton Health Science Corporation and Director of Geriatric Psychiatric Services at St. Joseph, St. Peter’s, and Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamilton, Ontario. He is a founding member of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry and the inaugural Vice President and then President of this National Organization. Dr. Le Clair now Co-Chairs the Millennium Project dedicated to improving health services in long-term care.

Dr. Robert Levitan
Dr. Levitan is Research Section Head for the Mood and Anxiety Division ath the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. He is President for the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms and an Associate Member of the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. He has over 50 publications, including ones in the Archives of General Psychiatry, the American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, and Neuropsychopharmacology. He has research funding from OMHF and NARSAD, and collaborative grants with CIHR, NIMH.

Dr. Larry Librach
Dr. Librach is Director of The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. He is also the W. Gifford-Jones Professor in Pain Control and Palliative Care at the University of Toronto, where he is a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine with cross appointments in the Department of Medicine and Department of Public Health Sciences. He is Director of the Cancer Pain Clinic at Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre. Dr. Librach is also Past President of the Ontario Palliative Care Association and Past President of the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians. Dr. Librach has spoken extensively on issues related to palliative care, and won numerous awards for his teaching.

Dr. Carol Nadelson
Dr. Carol Nadelson is a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Partners Office for Women’s Careers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and Consultant in the Department of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She is the former Editor-in-Chief and President and CEO of the American Psychiatric Press, Inc., and has the distinction of being the first woman president of the American Psychiatric Association. She served as Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at Beth Israel Hospital (BIH), where she organized the first HMS courses on Behavioral Sciences and Human Sexuality. As a member of the NIMH Section on Psychiatric Education, she developed a national program for NIMH and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) on “Educational Development for Psychiatric Educators”. At Tufts/New England Medical Center she was Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Psychiatry. She has served as President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and received the Vestermark Award from the APA and NIMH for “Outstanding Contributions to Psychiatric Education.” Dr. Nadelson has also had leadership roles in the Physicians Health Committees of both the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Dr. Nadelson has written extensively on women’s mental health, as well as on psychiatric education, ethics, health policy, physician health and impairment, and the history and challenges for women in medicine.

Dr. Peter Selby
Dr. Selby is the Clinical Director of the Addictions Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), University of Toronto (the largest program of its kind in Canada). He is also Head of the Nicotine Dependence Clinic at CAMH, and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine, Psychiatry and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. He is a Principal Investigator at the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit and serves as an advisor to provincial and federal tobacco control initiatives. Dr. Selby developed a multidisciplinary Nicotine Dependence Clinic at 3 hospital sites of CAMH specializing in the treatment of heavily dependent smokers and those with co-morbid mental illness and or other addictions. Dr. Selby's research interests include all aspects of tobacco control especially clinical trials that integrate pharmacotherapy with behavioural interventions. He also conducts trials on the use of web and communication technology for health behaviour change and chronic disease management. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of CIHR’s Strategic Training Program: Tobacco Use in Special Population and the site PI on a NIDA/NIH funded multinational RCT of buprenorphine versus methadone in pregnant opioid users. Dr. Selby is the PI of a knowledge translation program (PREGNETS) to increase the adoption of evidence-based interventions with pregnant smokers in Ontario. He also teaches graduate and continuing education courses on a variety of addiction related topics including smoking cessation and health behaviour change.

Dr. Verinder Sharma
Dr. Sharma is a mood disorder expert with the Mood Disorders Program, Regional Mental Health Care, in London, Ontario, and is also a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario. He has a cross-appointment to the department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Sharma's clinical research interests include bipolar disorder, psychopharmacology, suicide, and the effect of reproductive events on psychopathology. He has lectured both to the medical profession and the public on mood disorders, and served as the Scientific Co-chair for the Ontario Psychiatric Association for five years. He is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals and granting agencies, and he has published over 140 abstracts and papers, including over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Donna E. Stewart
Dr. Stewart is Chair of Women’s Health at University Health Network and University of Toronto. Dr. Stewart was recently awarded the rare distinction of University Professor, the highest academic honour bestowed by the university [congratulations, Dr. Stewart!]. Dr. Stewart is a women’s health researcher, educator, author, advocate and policy advisor nationally and internationally. She is Chair of the Section of Women’s Mental Health for the World Psychiatric Association and is President of the International Association of Women’s Mental Health. She is author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications and 4 books on Women’s Health and Mental Health.

Dr. Doug Weir
Dr. Weir is a child psychiatrist working in Toronto with over 20 years clinical experience. In addition to his clinical practice, he is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Medical Association (effective May 2005), and also Past-Chair of the Ontario Medical Association Section on Psychiatry.

Dr. Scott Woodside
Dr. Woodside is currently Head of the Anger Management Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, where he has worked providing both individual and group treatment for aggression since 1995. He is also the Senior Clinician on the Assessment and Triage Unit at CAMH, an inpatient unit providing assessment of mentally ill individuals charged with criminal offenses. Dr. Woodside trained as a lawyer, prior to entering medical school and subsequently completing his specialty training in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He works doing both criminal and civil forensic cases and frequently acts as a consultant to large corporations, providing threat assessments and treatment for aggressive employees. Dr. Woodside also consults to the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at CAMH and is responsible for assessing and administering sex-drive reducing medication to its clients. He has special expertise in both assessment of risk of future violence and in assessment of sexual offenders and has testified extensively in court in this regard. Dr. Woodside is also a Past President of PAIRO.

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