I am delighted to announce that our own Dr. Elyse Platt is the winner of the 2020 KJR Wightman Award for Scholarship in Ethics for her paper on “Depression and The Desire to Die – Implications for Medical Assistance in Dying”.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Oyedeji Ayonrinde on his appointment as Chair, Commission on Black Medical Students.

Read the full story here.

Congratulations Deji!

Our own Dr. Anne Duffy talks to Ontario Morning from CBC Radio about student mental health. 

For a link to the broadcast, click here.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Emily St. Denis, PGY-6 Geriatric Psychiatry Subspecialty resident, for being the recipient of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry Subspecialty Resident Award. 

Remembering our beloved Pallavi (Dr. Nadkarni)

Dear colleagues, staff, trainees and friends

It is with deep sorrow that I reach out to share the heartbreaking news on the passing of Dr. Pallavi Nadkarni. Pallavi died on September 20 of brain cancer. I know this may sound quite shocking to most of you, as the course of her illness was so devastating that left us with very little time to process it or to say a proper good-bye.  

I am pleased to share the news that Dr. Fabiano Gomes is the recipient of the 2020 Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation (BBRF) Young Investigator Award. 

The BBRF- formerly known as NARSAD  Foundation - is the most prestigious, non-governmental Foundation in the US, solely dedicated to mental health research.