Announcements
Dr. Paul Kurdyak has been appointed as the new co-Director, Division of Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems, effective September 1, 2018.
If you are considering submitting an application to the Post-MD Medical Humanities Education Matching Fund, please be aware that all prospective applicants must submit their proposals for internal review in order to be considered for matching funds by the Department of Psychiatry. Please submit your applications to admin.psych@utoronto.ca by September 24th, 2018 at MIDNIGHT. The Department will notify successful applicants by October 5th, 2018 in order to facilitate their October 15th, 2018 submission to the Post MD Program.
Register for the NEW U of T Psych Refresh Course! A perfect update/review for trainees and practising physicians. January 14-18, 2019, at Hart House. Space is limited!
The Department of Psychiatry, Competency By Design Team is pleased to share the second issue of CBD Newsletter.
Drs. Jon Hunter and Robert Maunder share the story of Isaac, a long-time patient in The Damage I Am. Read the NEW instalment on medium.com.
Oxford University Press has released Health Humanities in Postgraduate Medical Education, edited by Drs. Allan D. Peterkin and Anna Skorzewska.
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Awards & Honours
International/National
Dr. Sagar Parikh, leading a team including Trehani Fonseka, Andrew Kcomt and Janice Pong, has been awarded the Paula Goering Collaborative Researh and Knowledge Translation Award, which recognizes an innovative researcher–knowledge user collaborative project in the area of mental health and addictions from across Canada. The award recognizes the creation of the CHOICE-D Patient and Family Guide to Depression Treatment.
Provincial/Local
2018 Academic Scholar Award Winners
These merit-based awards support the professional development of full-time faculty members of the Department, with the priority being to support early-career and mid-career faculty members, so that they can progress towards attaining academic promotion.
George Foussias (CAMH)
Sophie Grigoriadis (Sunnybrook)
Margaret Hahn (CAMH)
Michael Kiang (CAMH)
Sanjeev Kumar (CAMH)
Meng-Chuan Lai (CAMH/SickKids)
Madeline Li (UHN)
Susan Lieff (Baycrest)
Mark Sinyor (Sunnybrook)
Kathryn Trottier (UHN)
Priya Watson (CAMH)
Gwyneth Zai (CAMH)
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Call for Nominations/
Grant Opportunities
The Weston Brain Institute is accepting applications for the Michael J. Fox Foundation and Weston Brain Institute Computational Science Fellowship.
Information Webinar: September 14, 2018
Proposal deadline: October 8, 2018
If you are considering submitting an application to the Post-MD Medical Humanities Education Matching Fund, please be aware that all prospective applicants must submit their proposals for internal review in order to be considered for matching funds by the Department of Psychiatry.
Please submit your applications to admin.psych@utoronto.ca by September 24, 2018 at MIDNIGHT. The Department will notify successful applicants by October 5th, 2018 in order to facilitate their October 15, 2018 submission to the Post MD Program.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2019 Mary Seeman Humanities Award.
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Past Announcements
Dr. Mary Vachon received the Herman Feifel Award from the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement in recognition of her outstanding achievement in thanatology.
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Departmental
Social Justice Info Night
October 17, 2018
Medical Psychiatry Alliance Annual Conference
October 2-3, 2018
Orientation Day for New Faculty
October 19, 2018
Promotions Primer
November 16, 2018
Annual Department of Psychiatry Psychopharmacology Conference
Programme now available!
November 24, 2018
Holiday Reception
December 3, 2018
Psych Refresh Course
January 14-18, 2019
Mindfest
January 24, 2019-Stay tuned for details.
Measuring Up - The 4th Annual Continuing Professional & Practice Development Day
January 25, 2019
Donald Wasylenki Education Day
February 21, 2019
Hospital Partners
The Human Rights Approach to Housing Webinar
September 13, 2018
CAMH Addictions Rounds
“Substance Use in Patients with Schizophrenia: Cracking the Chicken-or-egg Problem”
Presenter: Dr. Jibran Khokhar
September 14, 2018
Refugee Health Symposium: Mental Health Reports and Medical Evidence in Refugee and other Immigration Claims
September 17, 2018
Best Practice in Education Rounds- Inspiring Change: Learning to Connect Science and Practice, a Broker Perspective to Two Different Fields-Clinician Scientist Training and Faculty Development
Speaker: Manon Kluijtmans, PhD
October 2, 2018
The Health Narratives Research Group (HeNReG) Meetings
Every Wednesday from October 3, 2018 - April 24, 2019
Invitation to Clinical Supervision Best Practices Half Day Seminar
October 4, 2018
The BRITE™ Program: Healthcare Provider Resilience in the Workplace, On-the-Go
October 5, 2018
CAMH Addictions Rounds
“Substance-induced psychotic disorders vs. primary psychotic disorders”
October 12, 2018
Mindful Psychotherapy
Mount Sinai Psychotherapy Institute
October 20, 21, November 17, 18, & December 8, 9, 2018
Mount Sinai Hospital Psychotherapy Day 2018
Emotion Focused Therapy: The Transforming Power of Emotion
November 23, 2018
UHN Concussion Symposium for Lawyers, Insurers, Judges, and Clinicians
December 6, 2018
Other
Toronto Psychoanalytic Society Seminars: 2018 – 2019 Programs
Ongoing
Recovery Capital Conference of Canada
September 13-14, 2018
Cultural Psychiatry 101 Webinar
Episode 3: Gender and Sexual Identity
September 14, 2018
The Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis presents Working with Extreme States
September 15, 2018
Refugee Health: Mental Health Reports and Medical Evidence in Refugee and other Immigration Claims
September 17, 2018
Translational Research Program (TRP) “TR Talks” Discussion Series
Turning Research into Innovations
September 18, 2018
ODBAPA (MIT) Psych Salon #48: Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Brain Tumours and their Treatments
September 20, 2018
SSPC & Hong Fook Mental Health Association Joint Meeting
Abstract submission deadline: September 21, 2018
April 25-27, 2019
Introducing Narrative-Based Medicine –Part One
Registration closes September 26, 2018
Canadian Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Annual Meeting
September 26, 2018
Introducing Narrative-Based Medicine – Part One
Registration closes September 26, 2018
NASPR 2018 Conference: Beyond the Average: Furthering the Study of Processes of Change
September 27-28, 2018
A Rooster for Asclepius: A year-long health humanities workshop
October 2018
Translational Research Program (TRP) “TR Talks” Discussion Series
Co-Creating with Patients: Needs, Problems & Research
October 2, 2018
5th World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry
October 10-13, 2018
OPA 2018 Fall Conference
October 13, 2018
Translational Research Program (TRP) “TR Talks” Discussion Series
Tools for Translation: Patenting and IP
October 16, 2018
Restoring Body Image after Cancer: (ReBIC) A Group Intervention to Address Cancer - Related Body Image Concerns - One Day Workshop
October 19, 2018
Anxiety Release Protocol (ARP) Training
October 24, 2018
Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association Annual Conference
October 24-26, 2018
Mental Health Empowerment Day
Keynote speaker: Torrey Creed, Ph.D. of the Beck Institute in Philadelphia
October 28, 2018
Translational Research Program (TRP) “TR Talks” Discussion Series
Pathways to Market: Post Clinical Rrials
October 30, 2018
Translational Research Program (TRP) “TR Talks” Discussion Series
Funding Translation
November 13, 2018
Critical Perspectives On And Beyond ‘Recovery’: Ten Years On
Call for abstracts open!
November 14-15, 2018
Understanding and Treating Complex Trauma: Level 1 workshop
November 16, 2018
Translational Research Program (TRP) “TR Talks” Discussion Series
Implementing & Evidence: Strategy of Writing Papers in Translational Medicine
November 27, 2018
Translational Research Program (TRP) “TR Talks” Discussion Series
Translational Stories – Hosted by the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, UofT
December 11, 2018
World Conference on Personality (WAPP 2019)
April 2-6, 2019
Now accepting abstracts!
World Congress of Biological Psychiatry
June 2-6, 2019 (Vancouver)
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