Grand Rounds must be locally planned by the CME Committee according to the perceived and unperceived needs of the Department.
Policy for the Relationship with Pharmaceutical Companies
| Presentation Title | Speaker |
| Trauma and the Road to Recovery: Psychological Perspectives on PTSD | Dr. Peter Gotz |
| The Role of IV Ketamine in Treatment Refractory Mood Disorders | Drs. R. Chandrasena, J. Fairbairn, M. Anjum |
| Implications of Marijuana Legalization | Dr. Ricky Chuhan |
| Medical Assistance in Dying and Mental Illness | Dr. Caitlin Yee |
| Methamphetamine Use Disorder: Principles and Treatment Approaches | Dr. David Carlone |
| More than clutter: Understanding and managing hoarding disorder | Dr. Spencer Haze |
| The effect of pharmaceutical companies on knowledge in psychiatry | Dr. Marie Gojmerac |
| Benzodiazepines - Helpful or Harmful? | Dr. Liora Berger |
| The Gender Diverse Population: What Mental Health Clinicians Should Know | Dr. Marcelo Crespin |
| New 2018 CANMAT and ISBD Bipolar Treatment Guidelines: Advances in the Development and Dissemination Strategies (Hint: There is an App for That) | Dr. Ayal Schaffer |
| Strengthening Your Core: The Next CBME Stage | Dr. Eric Prost |
| Neurophysiological correlates of cognitive deficits in adolescent suicide attempters | Drs. Addo Boafo and Paniz Tavakoli |
| Repetition Compulsion, Seeking New Rejecting Objects in Adulthood | Dr. David Celani |
| Why do you keep telling me that Drug - Drug Interactions are important in Psychopharmacology when I do not see them in my clinical practice? My Failure to Convince Clinicians | Dr. Jose de Leon |
| The Basics of Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression | Melody Kang, Emily Hawken, Dr. Gustavo Vazquez |
| Remission, Resistance and Response to Treatment in Schizophrenia | Professor Saeed Farooq |
| Clinical Relevance of Psychoneuroimmunology of Bipolar Disorder | Dr. Vladimir Maletic |
| A Weighty Subject: Psychiatric Considerations in the Bariatric Population | Dr. Spencer Haze |
| Integrating Phenomenology, Chronobiology and Ignatian Spirituality for exploring time-processing disturbances in first-psychotic episodes: a pilot study | Dr. Paola Salvatore |
| Pharmacological interventions for antisocial personality disorder | Dr. Najat Khalifa |
| Visual Release Hallucinations and the Mind | Dr. R. Chuhan |
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
| Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Empirical basis and video examples | Dr. Allan Abbass |
| A Clinical Case Presentation on Bipolar Mania in a 16-year-old Male | Dr. Sarah Adams |
| Psychiatry and Social Media | Dr. Jamey Adirim |
| From inflammation to inflam-aging: The role of immune system in the pathophysiology of mood disorders | Dr. Elisa Brietzke |
| Brain Circuits and Human Behaviour: What can go wrong and what can we do about it? | Dr. Nir Lipsman |
| Art and the Unconscious: Using Art in Psychotherapy | Sarah Brodie and Claudia Corradetti |
| CBME (Again): Practical Guidance for this Academic Year | Dr. Eric Prost |
| The impact of childhood maltreatment in psychopathology: implications for research and clinical care | Dr. Elisa Brietzke |
| Relapse, Re-admission and Recovery: Managing Addiction Care in an Acute Care Hospital | Dr. Adam Quastel |
| Addictions Medicine: It's Never Too Late to START! | Dr. Raistlin Alexander Majere |
| Understanding and Managing the Agitated Patient | Dr. Reinhard Dolp |
| Cycloid Psychoses. the missing link between Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia? | Dr. Marcelo Cetkovich-Bakmas |
| Resolving Confusion - an in depth review of Delirium | Dr. Matt Tobin |
| Are We Getting the Most from Early Intervention in Psychosis? Need for Re-examination and Innovation | Dr. Ashok Malla |
| OPA Presidential Tour: Current Challenges Faced by Ontario Psychiatrists | Dr. Mathieu Dufour |
| Physician Burnout and the Wellness Curriculum | Dr. Amanda Richer |
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
| Suicide in a medical perspective: focus on psychosis | Dr. Leonardo Tondo |
| What happens when Cody, Fizzies and Juice walk into a Psycy unit? A discussion of chronic pain, common drugs of abuse and clinical management of opioid use disorder | Dr. Jen Pikard |
| Mental Health Services - Stepped Care Model | Dr. Saleh Altwaijri |
| Laying Down the Law: Medico-legal Issues in Psychiatry | Dr. Jen Martins |
| Do No Harm, Help Me Die: The Evolution of Assisted Dying Policies in Canada, and the Challenge of Mental Illness in the Context of MAiD | Dr. K. S. Gaind |
| Neurostimulation for Cognition in Alzheimer's Disease and High Risk Populations | Dr. Tarek Rajji |
| Quality Standards for Schizophrenia in Ontario | Dr. T. Munshi |
| General Practitioners' Knowledge & Understanding of First Episode Psychosis | Dr. Sarah Adams |
| A History of Depression - and how we ended up asking the MSIGECAPS questions | Dr. Niki Mofidi |
| Development of Emotion Regulation Development and the Role of Parents | Dr. Nim Tottenham |
| Pathways to Risk and Resilience: Predicting Outcomes in Offspring of Parents with Bipolar Disorder | Dr. Danella Hafeman |
| The Mental Health of Sexual Minorities: Minority Stress Theory & Research Implications | Dr. Marcelo Crespin |
| Building an Alzheimer's Resistant Brain: What You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer's Disease | Dr. Anees Bahji |
| Applying Clinical Tools in Early Psychosis | Dr. Tom Hastings |
| Opioid Agonist Therapy for Substance Use Disorders and Pain: inpatient and outpatient settings | Dr. Adam Newman |
| Juggling Risk & Care: Managing a Formerly Aggressive Patient on the Inpatient Forensic Unit. An Interdisciplinary Success Story | Drs. R. Douglas, M. Chan & Ms. C. Onysko |
| Is evidence based psychiatry ethical? A review | Dr. Marie Gojmerac |
| An Update on Nutritional Psychiatry | Dr. Matthew Pierce |
| Innovative Solutions for Treatment of Depression in Pregnancy | Dr. Simone Vigod |
| Understanding the Person with Huntington Disease | Dr. Catherine Bobek |
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
| "Suicide in Mood Disorders: How the Results of the ISBD Task Force on Suicide Can Inform a Diagnosis-Specific Approach" | Dr. Ayal Schaffer |
| "Treating Tobacco Addiction in Patients with Mental Illness: a Pragmatic Approach | Dr. Peter Selby |
| "Email Based (Internet and Computer based) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents" | Dr. Abdulhadi Alhabbad |
| "Pediatric Automimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PAANDAS): A Controversial Diagnosis" | Dr. Jennifer Martins |
| "Psychiatric Services for Long-Term Care Residents" | Dr. Dallas Seitz |
| "Psychosis and Intellectual Disability" | Dr. Muhammad Ayub |
| "Quality Improvement in Healthcare: Why should we care?" | Dr. Farooq Naeem and Dr. Pallavi Nadkarni |
| "Has Psychiatry lost its mind, or has Psychodynamics lost its brain: How cognitive neuroscience can help us find both" | Dr. Deborah L. Cabaniss |
| "Synthetic Cannabinoids for the Treatment of Cannabis Dependence: A Systematic Review" | Dr. Anees Bahji |
| "New CANMAT Guidelines for MDD: Neurostimulation Therapies" | Dr. Roumen Milev |
| "Borderline, or not? Do we "iatrogenize" suicidal gestures?" | Dr. Amer Sapru and Dr. Alina Marin |
| "Schizophrenia and high functioning: Is this an oxymoron?" | Dr. Tom Kim |
| "Cannabis Use and Psychosis: Examining the Evidence" | Dr. Catherine Bobek |
| DEBATE: This House Believes that Psychodynamic Therapy is Dead, Let Us Move On" - Moderator: Dr. Alina Marin | In Favour: Dr. Casimiro Cabrera and Dr. Farooq Naeem Against: Dr. Jane Baldock and Dr. Muhammad Ayub |
| "On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World" | Dr. S. Nassir Ghaemi |
| "To Cut or Not to Cut? Perspective on Psychosurgery" | Dr. Davit Khachatryan |
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
| "eGuru" | Dr. Alex Xiang |
| "Bipolar Disorder as a Vascular Disease: Clinical and Scientific Implications" | Dr. Ben Goldstein |
| "An Overview of Social Media Use in Medical Education" | Dr. A. Jalali |
| "Why Did Freud Fail to Win a Nobel Prize?" | Dr. Harry Karlinski |
| "Managing Complex and Severe Psychiatric Problems in teh Community" | Dr. Martin Feakins and Mr. T. Landry |
| "....and I am also suicidal": Improving Suicide Risk Assessment in the Emergency Room Department" | Dr. Nazanin Alavi, Dr. Taras Reshetukha and Dr. Eric Prost |
| "Clinicians and Scientists Perspective on Cocaine Addiction: Are we on the Same Page?" | Dr. Nadeem Mazhar and Dr. Eric Dumont |
| "On the Neuroscience of Affective Experience" | Dr. Ajay Satpute |
| "GROUP MEDICAL VISITS (GMV) IN PSYCHIATRY: What have we accomplished, what have we learned, what are the next steps?" | Dr. Ronald Remick |
| "The Role of Serotonin in Psychiatric Disorders: Lessons from Developmental Neuroscience" | Dr. Linda Booij |
| "Violent Patient on the Ward: Does cooperation with police have a role?" | Dr. Taras Reshetukha |
| "The Psychiatric Dilemma: The Duty to Report" | Dr. Nilanga Fernando |
| "Borderline - Looking back, looking forward and asking some questions along the way" | Dr. Sarah Penfold |
| "Let's Get Physical - Physical Examination and Monitoring in Psychiatric Care" | Dr. Selim Asmer |
| M&M Rounds "The 17-year old male and the impaired parent" | Dr. Nilanga Fernando |
| "Maximizing Your Impact as a Mentor and Creating a Culture where Mentoring Thrives" | Dr. Janet Bickel |
| DEBATE: "This House believes that the Form 1 is Grossly Abused" - Moderator: Dr. Eric Prost | In Favour: Dr. Sarosh Khalid-Khan and Dr. Nazanin Alavi Against: Dr. Alina Marin and Dr. Taras Reshetukha |
| "Theory of Mind, Abnormal Self Experience and Other Cognitive Features of Schizophrenia" | Dr. Daniela Volochniouk |
| M&M Rounds: "The Usual Suspects" | Dr. Peter Wang |
| "Modeling Depression "a la Parker" - A Review of Gordon Parker's Criticism of the DSM-5 Depression Classification" | Dr. Megan Yang |
| "Contemporary Conundrums in the Management of Bipolar Disorder" | Dr. Lakshmi Yatham |
| "Giving Effective Feedback: Tools and Techniques for the Clinical Preceptor" | Dr. Cherie Jones-Hiscock |
| "Categorizing the Dimensions of Mood Disorders" | Dr. Roger McIntyre |
| "How Does Early Life Adversity Impact the Development of Later Life Psychopathology" | Dr. Diane MacIntosh |
| "Gender Dysphoria in Children" | Dr. Niki Mofidi |
| "Songs to die for? Music and Suicide" | Dr. Peter Wang |
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"Collaborative Care - Our Social Responsibility" |
Dr. Diana Kljenak. Panel Members: Drs. N. Doan, R. Fitzpatrick, V. Prabhu, E. Prost |
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
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Psychiatrists and the Consent and Capacity Board: Preparation and Pitfalls |
Dr. Alison Freeland |
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Vitamin D: Does it play a role in Psychiatry |
Dr. Rupy Johal |
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The Echo of the Past |
Dr. Moustafa Eid |
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Problems are a Part of Life: Problem-Solving Therapy for Depression in Older Adults |
Dr. Dallas Seitz |
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Art and Mental Illness |
Dr. Barinder Singh |
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The Concept of Memory Reconsolidation and its Practical Application in Psychotherapy |
Dr. Göran Hörberg |
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Cura te ipseum (heal thyself) – Physicians and their mental illness |
Dr. Selim Asmer |
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Special Presentation: DSM 5 Update: A review and discussion of some of the changes from the DSM IV |
Dr. Tim Lau |
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A Gentler Introduction to Machine Learning in Medicine |
Dr. Joseph Geraci |
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Bullying in Youth and its Relationship with Suicidal Behaviour |
Dr. Naz Alavi |
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Treatment-Resistant Depression – Concept and Management |
Dr. Dusan Kolar |
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Tanzanian Psychiatry |
Dr. Martin Feakins |
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Psychiatry and Informatics |
Dr. Nam Doan |
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The Evolution of Service Delivery Models: Moving Beyond ‘Psychiatric Care’ |
Dr. Sonu Gaind |
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Emerging Treatments for PTSD |
Dr. Davit Khachatryan |
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Conducting Mental Health Research using Population-Based Administrative Health Data |
Dr. Dallas Seitz |
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When a Patient Commits Suicide…. |
Dr. Archana Patel |
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Using Eye Movements to Investigate Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders |
Dr. Doug Munoz |
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Psychiatric Treatment & Research Collaborations Cross Pacific Ocean |
Dr. Yuhuan Xie and Dr. Xureong Luo |
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Working with Transference and Countertransference in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) |
Dr. Diana Kljenak |
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Getting to YES: The Art of Negotiating the Best Possible Outcome |
Dr. Megan Yang |
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A Review Clozapine Safety |
Dr. Gbolahan Odejayi |
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Evidence-Based Practice |
Dr. Farooq Naeem |
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Operational Stress Injuries (OSI) in the Ontario Provincial Police & the Ontario Municipal Police Forces |
Dr. Dianne Groll |
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Psychiatric Disorders: A Wiring Problem? |
Kesshi Jordan |
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Keeping Good Boundaries in Professional Practice |
Dr. Michael Paré |
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Ketamine in Depression: A Ray of Hope? |
Dr. Shelly Dhaliwal
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Presentation Title |
Speaker(s) |
| Substance Abuse in Health Professionals | Dr. Wasif Habib |
| Psychiatric Aspects of Chronic Pain | Dr. Francois Mai |
| Street Health Centre: Hepatitis C Treatment of a Vulnerable, Addicted Population | Street Health Staff, Dr. Adam Newman, Ms. Carol Lynch |
| Tinkering with History and Philosophy of Psychiatry. Is 'Antipsychiatry' Good for Psychiatry | Dr. Casi Cabrera |
| Prosecuting Assaultive Psychiatric Patients: An Ethical Dilemma or a Necessary Approach | Ms. Judy Mosher |
| Working in the Military - Occupational Psychiatry | Dr. Deborah Elliott |
| Eating Disorders: From Development to Diagnosis | Dr. Mitra Monir Abbasi |
| Collaborative Geriatric Mental Health Care in Primary Care | Dr. Dallas Seitz |
| The Future of Academic Psychiatry: Leadership Skills for a New Era | Dr. J. Jarmain |
| DBT?? There's an App for That! | Dr. Nazanin Alavi |
| Are Psychiatrists an Endangered Species? | Dr. Joe Burley |
| Literature and Psychiatry | Dr. Barinder Singh |
| What is Restless Genital Syndrome? | Dr. Rupy Johal |
| Cats, Other Pets and Community Psychiatry | Dr. Martin Feakins |
| Psychiatry Debate: "This House Believes that the Specialty of Psychiatry is going to Become Less Important" | For: Dr. David Healy and Dr. Dallas Seitz Against: Dr. Casi Cabrera and Dr. Michael Chan |
| Lecture: How Regulating Drugs has killed the Art of Medicine | Dr. David Healy |
| Understanding Postpartum Psychosis | Dr. Archana Patel |
| Understanding and Managing Behavioural Problems in Patients with Developmental Disabilities | Dr. Cherie Jones-Hiscock and the Developmental Disabilities Consulting Program |
| Hopefully, A to Z.....in ADHD | Dr. Gbolahan Odejayi |
| Encouraging Inclusivity: Incorporating a Cultural Competency Module into the Psychiatry Residency Curriculum | Dr. Sarosh Khalid-Khan and Dr. Margo Rivera |
| ECT Local and Beyond | Dr. Casi Cabrera and Dr. Tariq Munshi |
| Genomic and Epigenomic Approaches for Complex Conditions: Meaning for Psychiatric Disorders | Dr. Xudong LiuI |
| Improving Outcomes in Major Depression: Recent Advances in Neuroimaging and rTMS Techniques | Dr. Jonathan Downar |
| Mental Health and Cognitive Screening of Youth in Moose Factory: An Interprofessional Collaboration | Dr. Sarosh Khalid-Khan, Dr. Jennifer Davidson-Harden, Dr. Kevin Parker |
| Empirical and Interpretive Psychiatry Today - Looking back, Looking ahead: A Centennial Celebration in Honour of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology | Dr. Gregory Walters, Dr. Casi Cabrera |
| High Users of the Emergency Department | Dr. Taras Reshetukha |
| How can we make Integration and Collaboration Work for a Better Future in Mental Health Care | Dr. Alina Marin, Dr. Terry Krupa, Ms. Cynthia Martineau, Ms. Sherry Kennedy |
| Dementia in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease: Differences and Similarities. If different mechanisms, then why the same treatment? | Dr. Tim Holden |
| Morbidity and Mortality Rounds: A Team Approach to Patient Care | Dr. Pallavi Nadkarni, Dr. P. Dungey, Dr. J. Boseovski |
| Stigma and Intellectual Disability | Dr. Bruce McCreary |
| Novel Treatments for Eating Disoders | Dr. Mitra Monie Abbasi |
In 2012, the Departmental policy for the "Relationship with Pharmaceutical Companies" was developed and implemented. Pharmaceutical companies can bring in accredited presentations and provide a modest lunch, however, residents should not solicit or accept financial support from pharmaceutical companies. These talks will take place at noon-hour only and will not be part of Grand Rounds. There will be no support or publicity for evening talks, even if accredited by the Royal College or CPA.
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
| To Admit or Not Admit, that is the Question: Factors Associated with Admission after Urgent Consults |
Dr. Nasreen Roberts and Ms. Susan Franchuck |
| This House believes that Psychiatric Treatments are Never Futile | Dr. Nasreen Roberts, Dr. Ruzica Jokic, Dr. Casi Cabrera, Dr. Eric Prost, Dr. Frank Jarrett |
| PTer - Psychotherapy Training Electronic Resource | Dr. Priyanthy Weerasekera |
| Hypnotherapy for Smoking Cessation | Dr. Ruby Sadera |
| An Evaluation of the "Priming, Timing, Miming" Behavioural Care Place by LTC Facilities Receiving Patients from the MHS Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatients Units |
Dr. Lindy Kilik and Mr. Jack Henson |
| Forecasting the Storm: Aggressiveness and Violence Risk Assessment in Acute Care and Out-patient Settings |
Dr. David Murray |
| Collaborative Mental Health Care in Long-Term Care | Ms. Salinda Horgan |
| PTSD - A Historical Perspective | Dr. Behnia Haghiri |
| Psychiatry in Ontario: What you need to know and why you need to know it | Dr. Alison Freeland |
| Child Abuse: A Clinical Perspective | Dr. Moustafa Eid |
| Depression in Neurological Disease: Are there Lessons for General Psychiatry |
Dr. Tim Holden |
| Alcoholism | Dr. Daniela Volochniouk |
| Explaining Mental Illness to our Patients | Dr. Joe Burley |
| Role Models and Road Blocks: Professionalism in Health Education | Dr. Nishardi Wijeratne |
| Primary Polydipsia in a Severe Persistent Mental Illness Population | Dr. Simon O'Brien |
| Film "Recovery" | Gary and Krista Ledbetter |
| Cycloid Psychosis | Dr. Nam Doan |
| ADHD across the Lifespan | Dr. Alina Marin, Dr. Michael Chan, Dr. Garth Smith |
| Pedophilia: Psychiatric Insights | Dr. Peter Szymczak |
| The M.I.N.I. | Dr. Juris Janavs |
| Teen Suicides in Moose Factory: A Collaborative Approach towards Screening at-Risk Youth and Identifying Resilience Factors | Dr. Sarosh Khalid-Khan, Dr. Kevin Parker |
| Can Mental Illness Present as an Epidemic | Dr. Varinder Parmar |
| The Revised Maintenance of Certification Program: Practical Strategies for Lifelong Learning in Practice | Dr. Craig Campbell |
| Physician Health Challenges in Training and Beyond: Does Psychiatry have a Role? | Dr. Melissa Andrew, Dr. Leslie Flynn, Dr. Steve McNevin |
| Who am I? Identity versus Role Confusion | Dr. Shaimaa Abo El Ella |
| Converson Disorder in Children and Adolescents | Dr. Taras Reshetukha, Dr. Nasreen Roberts |
| Process, not Content or Style: Can we Teach how to Think while Conducting a Psychiatric Interview | Dr. Eric Prost |
| Working with Anxiety | Dr. Larry Klassen |
| Coaches, Judges & Whistleblowers - Assessing Professionalism in Medical Education |
Dr. Nishardi Wijeratne |