The MGSS is made up of independent investigators, research associates, graduate PhD and MSc level students, and research collaborators.
Principal investigators
Gustavo Turecki, MD, PhD
Director, McGill Group for Suicide Studies
Director, Depressive Disorders Program
Expertise: Suicide, depressive disorders, treatment-resistant major depressive disorder, neurobiology, psychiatric genetics, epigenetics
Naguib Mechawar, PhD
Expertise: Chemical neuroanatomy, central cholinergic systems, cortical development, adult brain neurogenesis, programmed cell death, suicide
Johanne Renaud, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Expertise: Youth suicide and suicidal behaviours, depressive disorders, health services, childhood, adolescence
Monique Séguin, PhD
Expertise: Suicide, bereavement, risk and protective factors for suicide, intervention and clinical best practices
Fabrice Jollant, MD, PhD
Expertise: Suicide, suicidal behaviour, mood disorders, bipolar disorders, depressive disorders, neuropsychology, decision-making, social cognition, emotions, cerebral neuroimaging, fMRI
Eduardo Chachamovich, MD, PhD
Expertise: Suicide, aboriginal suicide, aboriginal mental health, suicidal behaviour, mood disorders, bipolar disorders, depressive disorders, psychometrics, item response theory
Marcelo Berlim, MD, MSc
Expertise: Treatment-resistant depression, suicidality, neuromodulation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (DTMS), neuroimaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Carl Ernst, PhD
Expertise: molecular biology, neurobiology, suicide
Associated Investigators
Chawki Benkelfat, MD
Richard Boyer, PhD
Jean-Jacques Breton, MD, MSc
Gabriel G. Diaconu, MD
Aurélie Labbe, PhD
Martine Lalinec, MD, FRCPC
Alain Lesage, MD
Guy Rouleau, MD, PhD
Graduate students
Marie Bullock
Dave Checknita
Cristiana Cruceanu
Yang Ding
Erika Freemantle
Jeff Gross
Benoit Labonté
Juan Pablo Lopez
Ian Mahar
Marissa Maheu
Corina Nagy
Geraldine Riedi
Gabriela Torres-Platas
Postdoctoral fellows
Gang Chen
Gilles Maussion
Alumni
Caroline Kim
Alexandre Dumais
Adolfo Sequeira
Hana Zouk
Christa Hercher
Catalina Lopez de Lara
Aleksandra Lalovic
Jelena Brezo
Alexander McGirr
Gabriel G. Diaconu
Tim Klempan
Taravat Ostovar
Ioana Dalca
Rodney Pinto
Carl Ernst
Firoza Mamdani
Laura Fiori
Technical and clinical personnel
Suicide Studies
Administrative assistants
Jacques Richard
Anouk Huizink
Clinical research coordinator
Marie-Martine Beaulieu
Academic coordinator
Richard Violette, MA.Soc
Molecular lab research associate and coordinator
Volodymyr Yerko, PhD
Laboratory technicians
Maria Antonietta Davoli
Jennie Yang
Quebec Suicide Brain Bank
Danielle Cecyre
Maamar Bouchka
Josee Prud'homme
Research assistants and clinical-research interviewers
François Giasson
Annukka Jäkälä
Lucie Ratelle
Jean-Sylvain René
Elena Saimon
Sophia Spada-Rinaldis
Depressive Disorders Program
Administrative Assistants
Julie Budge
Sasha MacNeil
Nurses and liaison agents
Annie Roy, RN
Magalie Joly, RN
Psychologists
Liliane Sayegh, PhD
Valentin Mbeku, PhD
Jean-Chrysostome Zanga, D.E.S.S
Amal Wahbi
Social Workers
Anton Chow
Theodora Mikedis
Psychiatrists
Gustavo Turecki, MD, PhD
Johanne Renaud, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Marcelo Berlim, MD, MSc
Fabrice Jollant, MD, PhD
Eduardo Chachamovich, MD, PhD
