Thirty years ago, N.P. Vasavan Nair, MD, Medical Chief of the Program for Dementia with Psychiatric Co-morbidity, established the Douglas Research Centre with the late Samarthji Lal, MD, former Director of the McGill Centre for Research on Schizophrenia. Over the years, it has become the largest research centre in mental health in Quebec and the second largest in Canada, widely recognized as a model research centre.

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Douglas Institute Research Centre and to pay homage to Sam Lal who passed away in November 2009, the Douglas has produced a video which portrays Dr. Lal and Dr. Nair, and the work they performed at the Research Centre over the years.