Naguib Mechawar identifies the neurochemical and neuroanatomical properties of major depression and suicidal behaviors in the brain.

The research of Myra Piat focuses on housing for persons with serious mental illness and recovery from serious mental illness.

Gustavo Turecki investigates the neurobiology of suicide, focusing on the role of genetic risk factors.

Judes Poirier who had discovered a novel genetic risk factor that triggers the common form of Alzheimer’s disease, again made history in June.  

Pedro Rosa-Neto is interested in the structural changes that occur in the brain as a result of neurodegenerative disease.

Eric Latimer, PhD, is a health economist and looks for ways to improve the services to people with severe forms of mental illness.

Camillo Zacchia is Senior advisor, Mental Health Education Office (MHEO) at the Douglas Institute.

N.P. Vasavan Nair, M.D., FRCPC, has contributed to the Douglas Institute in a variety of capacities.

Mimi Israël is active in eating disorders, affective disorders, crisis intervention, emergency psychiatry and mental health care service organization.

Hani Iskandar has been involved in clinical research projects in the fields of schizophrenia, mood disorders and pharmacology.