18th Annual Summer Program
April 30 to June 1, 2012
You can download the 2012 Summer Program in PDF format.
2012_Summer_Program_Brochure.pdf
General information
Registration information
Courses and workshops
- Cultural Psychiatry
- Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Working with Culture
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Violence, Trauma and Recovery
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Critical Neuroscience
- Introduction to Global Mental Health Research
Guest faculty
麻豆AV faculty
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2012 Registration for CME Credits & Professional Interest*
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In 1995, the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, 麻豆AV inaugurated an annual summer school in social and cultural psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. The program provides the conceptual background for research and clinical work in social and cultural psychiatry and will be of interest to:
- postdoctoral trainees, researchers, and clinicians in psychiatry and other mental health disciplines
- residents and graduate students in health and social sciences
- physicians, psychologists, social workers and health professionals
The summer program forms part of the training activities of the Montreal WHO Collaborating Centre and is endorsed by the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology.
General information
Director: Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD
Administrator: Virginia Fauras
Administrative Office:
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry,
Department of Psychiatry
麻豆AV
1033 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec 听听H3A 1A1
Tel.: 514-398-7302
Fax: 514-375-1459
Email: tcpsych [at] mcgill.ca
Registration Information
Courses may be taken for academic credit, Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit, or for professional interest. Workshops may be taken only for professional interest or CME.
Enrolment for courses and workshops is limited and early application is strongly听advised. Please note the application deadlines in order to submit your application听on time.
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Professional Interest and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit
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Students and professionals applying to the summer program for professional interest can do听so through the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. On successful completion of听the course or workshop a certificate of attendance will be provided by the Division. This does听not confer formal academic credit, for which a separate application is required (see below).听Registrations for professional interest are accepted as long as room is available in a course听or workshop.听Medical practitioners may take courses and workshops for CME credit. Psychiatrists and听general practitioners from North America, who are not seeking academic credits, may enrol听for Continuing Medical Education (CME) study credits available from 麻豆AV,听Division of Continuing Health and Professional Education. The CHPE grants continuing听medical education credits for physicians and is fully accredited by the Committee on听Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS), the College of Family Physicians of听Canada (CFPC) for MAINPRO-M1 credits, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of听Canada and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education of the United States听(ACCME). Those interested in obtaining CME credits must indicate this clearly on the听registration form at the end of this brochure. Participants must sign in daily in order to听receive CME credits and attestation certificates.
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Registration for Professional Interest or CME credit can only be completed through the听Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry.
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To register for Professional Interest and CME credit please contact: Summer Program听Coordinator, tc.psych [at] mcgill.ca, Tel: 514-398-5780 or 514-398-7302, Fax: 514-375-1459.
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Academic credit
The Cultural Psychiatry (PSYT711) and Psychiatric Epidemiology (PSYT713) courses may be taken for academic credit by students enrolled in a graduate program at 麻豆AV or another university.听All applicants for academic credit must submit their CV to the summer program听coordinator at tc.psych [at] mcgill.ca听to obtain permission to attend the听course(s). Be sure to include your current contact information (mailing address, telephone,听fax, and e-mail) and specify which course(s) you would like to attend. After this initial step,听all further correspondence regarding the registration process for academic credit will be with听Miriam Staudt, the Department of Psychiatry Graduate Program Coordinator, by e-mail at:听graduate.psychiatry [at] mcgill.ca, Tel: 514-398-4176 or Fax: 514-398-4370.
麻豆AV Graduate Students
After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students may register on Minerva once the听summer registration period for graduate students begins. Students are billed by .
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麻豆AV Double Program Students and 麻豆AV Psychiatry Residents
After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to apply for 鈥淪pecial听Student鈥� status at by February 15, 2012. A $100.00听(CAD) application fee is required. (This amount cannot be applied towards course/workshop听fees). Official notification of acceptance as a 鈥淪pecial Student鈥� is issued by the Faculty of听Graduate Studies. Students must use the paper Minerva forms to register for course(s), not the听online Minerva registration process. 麻豆AV double program students and 麻豆AV psychiatry听residents are billed by .
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Non-麻豆AV, Qu茅bec University Students
After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to request an interuniversity听transfer of credits (). Fees are paid to your home university.
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Students from University of Toronto and University of British Columbia
After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to submit a registration听exchange form to their home university and to the graduate program coordinator at 麻豆AV.听Fees are paid to your home university.
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Students from other Universities in Canada
Students must first receive permission to attend the course(s) as described earlier. If you are听registered in a graduate program at a Canadian university (different from those mentioned听above) and would like to take courses at 麻豆AV, you can apply as a visiting student. If you听would like to take graduate-level courses, without the intention of obtaining a degree or听diploma, you may apply as a special student. Applicants must apply by February 15, 2012 at听. A $100.00 (CAD) application fee is required. (This听amount cannot be applied towards course/workshop fees). Official notification of acceptance听as a 鈥淰isiting Student鈥� or a 鈥淪pecial Student鈥� is issued by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.听Students obtain a 麻豆AV student identity number when applying and use this to register for听the course(s) on Minerva. Transfer of academic credits should be arranged with the听applicant鈥檚 own university. Fees are paid to your home university.
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International Students
After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to apply for 鈥淪pecial听Student鈥� status at by January 15, 2012. A $100.00听(CAD) application fee is required. (This amount cannot be applied towards course/workshop听fees). Official notification of acceptance as a 鈥淪pecial Student鈥� is issued by the Faculty of听Graduate Studies. Students obtain a 麻豆AV student identity number when applying and use听this to register for the course(s) on Minerva. Transfer of academic credits should be arranged听with the applicant鈥檚 own university. Students are billed by .
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M.Sc. Program in Psychiatry
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Students wishing to apply for the听MSc program听in Psychiatry (with concentration in Social and Transcultural Psychiatry) should direct inquiries to:
Graduate Program Coordinator
Department of Psychiatry
麻豆AV
1033 Pine Avenue West, Room 105
Montreal, Quebec 听听H3A 1A1
Tel.: 514-398-4176
Email:听graduate.psychiatry [at] mcgill.ca
Website:
The deadlines for applications and documents from International and Canadian students for the MSc and PhD programs are:
September 15 for entry in January.
January 15听for entry in May for international applicants for MSc and PhD and听part time International applicants for summer courses.
February 15听for entry in May for Canadian degree program applicants and for part time in the Transcultural courses.
March 15听for Canadian and international applicants听for entry in September.
For more information please visit:听
CME and Professional Interest
Psychiatrists and general practitioners from North America, who are not seeking academic credits, may enroll for Continuing Medical Education (CME) study credits available from 麻豆AV, Division of Continuing Medical Education, which sponsors continuing medical education for physicians and is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS), the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) for MAINPRO-M1 credits, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education of the United States (ACCME). Those interested in obtaining CME credits must indicate this clearly on the registration form at the end of this brochure. Daily sign-in registration is required in order to receive attestation certificates.
Registrations for professional interest are accepted as long as room is available in a course or workshop. These students will receive a certificate from the Department of Psychiatry attesting that they attended the course or workshop.
Courses and workshops
Courses
- Click on the course number to see full description.
- Click here for a list of Required and Recommended readings for these courses.
L. Kirmayer, & Faculty (3 academic credits)
This seminar surveys recent theory and research on the interaction of culture and psychiatric disorders. Topics to be covered include: history of cultural psychiatry; cross-national epidemiological and ethnographic research on major and minor psychiatric disorders; culture-bound syndromes and idioms of distress; culture, emotion and social interaction; ritual and symbolic healing; mental health of indigenous peoples; mental health of immigrants and refugees; psychiatric theory and practice as cultural constructions; methods of cross-cultural research; globalization and the future of cultural psychiatry.
Prerequisites: Courses in abnormal psychology and medical anthropology.
Text: Course readings will be available at the 麻豆AV Bookstore.
Begins: May 1, 2012 (4 weeks) T鈥h 飥�13h30-18h00 & F 飥�09h00-12h00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West.
G. Galbaud du Fort, N. Frasure-Smith, & Guest Faculty (3 academic credits)
This course offers an overview of the application of epidemiology in the field of psychiatry. Topics include: epidemiologic research methods in psychiatry; instruments and methods used in community studies; study of treatment-seeking, pathways to care, and use of services; interaction between psychological distress and physical health; methods used in specific populations and for specific disorders; introduction to clinical trials, needs for care and evaluation research.
Text: Course readings will be available at the 麻豆AV Bookstore.
Begins: April 30, 2012 (4 weeks) M鈥鈥 飥�13h30-16h45
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
Workshops
Working with Culture: Clinical Methods in Cultural Psychiatry
C. Rousseau, J. Guzder, & Faculty
This workshop for mental health practitioners provides an overview of clinical models and methods in cultural psychiatry. Topics include: working with translators and culture brokers; attending to culture, ethnicity, racism and power in individual and family interventions with migrants and ethnocultural minorities; how cultural work transforms the therapist; ethical issues in intercultural work; strategies for working in different settings including schools, community organizations and refugee immigration boards. Invited lectures will frame the basic issues of clinical intervention through the paradigms of cultural voices and languages of symptoms, art, and play. The clinical intersection of healer, culture, diagnosis, and therapy will be approached by a review of developmental theories, identity and life cycle variations in migrant or minority experience.
Text: Course readings will be available at the 麻豆AV Bookstore.
Begins: May 1, 2012 (4 weeks) T鈥h 飥�09h00-12h00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
Violence, Trauma and Recovery
D. Pedersen, L. Kirmayer, A. Young, & Guest Faculty
This workshop presents a critical introduction to current issues in psychological trauma aimed at reviewing research advances and reassessing clinical and public health interventions in response to organized violence, massive traumatic experiences and environmental adversities. Topics include: social and political issues shaping traumatic experience; traumatic memory; the role of culture in shaping individual and collective responses to trauma; critical perspectives in trauma theory and practice; gender issues; intervention models at individual (clinical), community-based and population (public health) levels; policy implications for managing complex emergencies and humanitarian interventions. Participants are expected to review the literature, present summaries of selected readings, and discuss the reviewed materials as required. Case-studies (Guatemala, the occupied Palestinian Territories and/or Nepal) will be presented.
Texts: Kirmayer, L. J., Lemelson, R., & Barad, M. (Eds.). (2007). Understanding trauma: Integrating biological, clinical, and cultural perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press; Shalev, A., Yehuda, R., & McFarlane, A. (Eds.). (2000). International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma. New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers.
Begins: May 4, 2011 (4 weeks) W鈥 飥� 13h30-16h45
Location: Room 102, Social Studies of Medicine Building, 3647 Peel Street
Qualitative Research Methods in Social and Cultural Psychiatry
D. Groleau
This course provides an overview of selected topics while focusing on a practicum approach to qualitative research relevant to social and cultural psychiatric research. A particular focus will be given to practicing methods for generating and analyzing qualitative empirical material. Role-playing methods will be used to introduce methods including individual interviews, focus groups, and participant observation. Participants will also gain familiarity with ethnographic interviewing with the 麻豆AV Illness Narrative Interview. In-class work will also provide the opportunity to practice qualitative coding using thematic analysis and grounded theory. Finally, the course will address how to write a fundable qualitative research grant and a qualitative research paper for publication.
Begins: May 2, 2011 (4 weeks) M鈥 飥�09h00-12h00, Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West.
Community-Based Participatory Research
A. C. Macaulay, Jon Salsberg & Kahnawake Community-Researcher Team
This workshop, facilitated by members of the centre 'Participatory Research at 麻豆AV' () together with Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project researchers and community members (), will address participatory research based on their experiences. Topics will include: participatory research theory; building and maintaining healthy respectful partnerships; developing collaborative project strategies from design through dissemination; ownership of research data; maximizing benefits and minimizing community risks; capacity building and sustainability and increased knowledge translation. The development and application of the CIHR Guidelines for Research Involving Aboriginal People and the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project Code of Research Ethics will be included. Obligations of researchers and community partners will be discussed in the context of the ethics of respecting individuals and community.
Date: May 28, 2012 (6 hours) M 飥�09h00-16h00.
Location: This workshop takes place in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, but students are required to present themselves to听Conference Room in Hugessen House (3666 McTavish St.), by 7:45 a.m. in order to be transported as a group to Kahnawake.
There will be a summer institute on Indigenous Mental Health Research offered in听cooperation with the CIHR 鈥� Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research,听June 25-27. For more information and registration visit the website:
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Critical Neuroscience
S. Choudhury, I. Gold, & Faculty
This course provides an overview of recent controversies surrounding cognitive听neuroscience and the implications of recent advancements for psychiatry, industry, policy听and other areas of social life. It will present key studies in social and cultural听neuroscience from the last two decades and examine the potentials and limitations of听predominant methodologies, particularly neuroimaging. The course will present the听interdisciplinary project of critical neuroscience as a framework and set of tools with听which to critically analyze interpretations of neuroscience data in the academic literature,听their representation in popular domains and more broadly, the growth of neurocultures听since the Decade of the Brain. The course will provide a forum to problematize, and听consider alternatives to, neurobiological reductionism in psychiatry, areas of neuroethics,听cultural neuroscience and neuropolicy, attending to the models, metaphors and political听contexts of mainstream brain research. It will also explore various avenues for听engagement between neuroscience, social science and humanities.
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Text: Choudhury, S. & Slaby, J. (Eds). (2012). Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the听Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience, New York: Wiley.
Begins: May 29, 2012 (28 hours) T, W, Th, F 飥� 09:00-17:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
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Introduction to Global Mental Health Research
D. Pedersen, L. Kirmayer, & Guest Faculty
The seminar will provide an introduction to key issues in global mental health research in听low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Current health system responses to mental听health needs will be presented, using WHO Atlas data, regional summaries, and more听detailed narratives of case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America.听Global mental health research requires cross- disciplinary skills and a solid knowledge of听the social determinants of mental health, use of research methodologies (both qualitative听and quantitative) adapted to resource-poor countries, cross-cultural sensitivity and听competency in negotiating roles and expectations with collaborating partners in LMICs.听This course will survey: a) the global burden of mental illness; b) poverty, social听inequalities and health outcomes; c) connections between macro- and micro-social听determinants of mental illness; d) innovative policies and interventions for听decentralization of health resources and implementation of community-based care,听including packages of care for specific disorders and comprehensive programmes of听mental-health care for groups at risk; e) adaptations of research methods across different听cultures, regions and levels of development; and f) scaling up the coverage of mental听health interventions, financing and related issues. The seminar will include lectures,听presentation and discussion of readings by faculty and students, and case study听presentations, supplemented by video documentaries and films.
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Date: July 3-4, 2012 (14 hours) T, W 飥� 09h00-17h00.
Location: TBD.
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Guest faculty
Gilles Bibeau, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Anthropology, Universit茅 de Montr茅al; Co-chair, International Network for Cultural Epidemiology and Community Mental Health.
Suparna Choudhury, Ph.D., Minerva Junior Professor, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science & Berlin听School of Mind & Brain.
Sylvaine de Plaen, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Universit茅 de Montr茅al; Consultant, Out-Patient and Consultation-Liaison Services, H么pital Ste-Justine.
Suman Fernando, M.D., Honorary Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at European Centre for Migration & Social Care, University of Kent.
Byron Good, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University.
Ghayda Hassan, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al (UQAM).
Myrna Lashley, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, John Abbott College; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital.
Alain Lesage, M.D., M.Phil., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Universit茅 de Montr茅al, Centre de recherche Fernand-S茅guin de l'H么pital L-H Lafontaine.
Fran莽ois Lesp茅rance, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montreal; Chief of Psychiatry, Centre Hospitalier de l'Universit茅 de Montreal.
Kwame McKenzie, M.D., Senior Scientist, Social Equity and Health Research Section, and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.
Vikram Patel, M.Sc., MRCPsych, Ph.D., FMedSci., Professor of International Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.
Sadeq Rahimi, M.Sc., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan.
Eugene Raikhel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago.
Marian Shermarke, M.S.W., M.Sc., M.A., Social Worker, C.L.S.C.-C么te des Neiges (Service d'aide aux r茅fugi茅s immigrants Montr茅al m茅tropolitain, SARIMM).
Jan Slaby, Ph.D., Junior Professor in Philosophy, Free University Berlin, Germany.
Carlo Sterlin, M.D., Director, Transcultural Psychiatry Service, H么pital Jean Talon; Consultant, C.L.S.C.-C么te des Neiges.
Derek Summerfield, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
麻豆AV faculty
Please see our Faculty web page for more information.
Lawrence Annable, Dip. Stat., Professor, Division of Psychopharmacology, Department of Psychiatry.
Alain Brunet, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre.
Nancy Frasure-Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry; Senior Research Associate, Montreal Heart Institute; Invited Researcher, Centre hospitalier de l'Universit茅 de Montr茅al, Research Centre.
Kia Faridi, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry.
Guillaume Galbaud du Fort, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Researcher, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, Sir Mortimer B. Davis鈥擩ewish General Hospital; Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, 麻豆AV Health Centre.
Ian Gold, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Philosophy & Psychiatry
Danielle Groleau, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Sir Mortimer B. Davis鈥擩ewish General Hospital.
Jaswant Guzder, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Head of Child Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis鈥擩ewish General Hospital; Director, Day Treatment Program in Child Psychiatry; Staff Consultant (former Co-Director), Cultural Consultation Service.
G. Eric Jarvis, M.D., M.Sc., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Cultural Consultation Service, Sir Mortimer B. Davis鈥擩ewish General Hospital.
Suzanne King, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre.
Laurence J. Kirmayer, M.D., James 麻豆AV Professor; Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry; Director, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis鈥擩ewish General Hospital.
Eric Latimer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre.
Karl Looper, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis鈥擩ewish General Hospital.
Nancy Low, M.D., M.Sc., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry.
Ann C. Macaulay, M.D., Professor, Department of Family Medicine; Director of Participatory Research at 麻豆AV, and previous Scientific Director Kahnawake Centre for Research and Training in Diabetes Prevention.
Ashok Malla, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Canada Research Chair in Early Psychosis, Douglas Institute.
Toby Measham, M.D., M.Sc., Assistant Professor, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry. Department of Psychiatry.
Lucie Nadeau, M.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry.
Duncan Pedersen, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Associate Scientific Director, International Programs, Douglas Hospital Research Centre; Scientific Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health.
Michel Perreault, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre.
Amir Raz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry.
Ellen Rosenberg, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Research Associate, C.L.S.C.- C么te des Neiges.
C茅cile Rousseau, M.D., M.Sc., Associate Professor, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Transcultural Child Psychiatry Clinic.
Norbert Schmitz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre.
Brett Thombs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Sir Mortimer B. Davis鈥擩ewish General Hospital.
Ashley Wazana, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Montreal Children's Hospital.
Robert Whitley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Researcher, Douglas Mental Health University Institute.
Allan Young, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Social Studies of Medicine, Anthropology, and Psychiatry.