DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIOURAL NEUROSCIENCES
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The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University conducts clinical care and research within the university community and throughout a unique regional network of partner organizations. Our goal is straightforward: to be the most innovative Department of Psychiatry anywhere.
Within the Department, our members are committed to excellence in inter-professional educational scholarship across the continuum, spanning undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education domains. We have a strong track record of enhancing the knowledge and skills of health professionals utilizing a competency-based approach. Our unique strengths derive from a foundation and love of teaching within our faculty, many of whom were attracted to the department by the creative and innovative culture of education fostered by the medical school.
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Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience is focused broadly on increasing our understanding of factors leading to the onset and maintenance of mental illnesses and addiction, as well as the development and evaluation of new assessment methods and treatment approaches. The overall goal of this research is to improve quality of life and treatment outcomes in individuals struggling with mental illness and addiction. Our research mission is driven by our strategic aims to improve detection, access and transitions, to integrate psychiatry across medicine and healthcare and to advance person- and family-centred care.
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University is a multidisciplinary department consisting of MD and non-MD faculty working within a unique regional network of psychiatric services that integrates two general hospitals, a network of community services, a 24-hour regional psychiatric emergency service, an innovative shared-care mental health program, and outreach services for children, adults and the elderly.
Ash Singh, one of our residents, will be starting a new program - a Boot Camp in Psychiatry for medical students. This high paced intro to Psychia...
Harriet MacMillan who in addition to receiving the Order of Canada last week was also been appointed by Patty Hajdu, the Minister of Status of Wome...
Katherine McKay and colleagues who have been invited to present as part of this year's Top Five What Works paper presentations during a special ses...
Congratulations to all the recipients of awards at our Annual Department Dinner on May 30th. Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award - Hamilton: Al...
Harriet MacMillan has recently been chosen as the 2016 winner of the CPA / Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology Alex Leighton Award for res...
Sheila harms is the 2016 winner of the ACPC Award for Excellence in Education.
Anthony Levinson is the 2016 winner of the Association of Chairs of Psychiatry of Canada Award (ACPC) for Creative Professional Activity.
As you know by now, the Residency Program underwent an internal review earlier this week as a preliminary to an external review in 2017 and the rev...
Internal Reviews of the Child and Geriatric Subspecialty Programs Both of these new programs underwent separate internal reviews at the end of Apr...
Two members of our Department have just won President’s Awards for significant contributions to McMaster University. The first is Anthony L...
The administrative responsibility for the Clinical Behavioural Sciences (CBS) Program, will be officially transferred from Educational Services at ...
Congratulations Gary Chaimowitz who has won two major awards. The first is the Jane Chamberlin Award from the Association of General Hospital Psych...
Congratulations Richard Swinson who was the inaugural winner of the first ever Frederick W. Thompson Memorial Award, Distinguished Scholar. This i...
Rebecca Anglin who, along with Glenda MacQueen, is the mental health lead on the IMAGINE (IMAGINE stands for Inflammation, Microbiome, and Aliment...
Congratulations to Marilyn Korzekwa who completed another really challenging open water swim, crossing the Cook Straight between New Zealand’...
Congratulations Robyn Fallen, Katherine McKay and Parkash Singh, who have turned the very successful Psychiatry Residents handbook into an app. Thi...
Peter Bieling and Randi McCabe have both been appointed Fellows of the Canadian Psychological Association. Congratulations to you both, a very sig...
This years CaRMS match went extraordinarily well. Not only did we fill all our positions in Hamilton and at the Waterloo Regional Campus, all of ou...
Carrie McAiney is a co-PIs and John Cairney and Nick Kates are co-investigators on a successful $1,000,000 Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit IMPACT Award.
Margaret Secord is one of 43 women in Hamilton who has been nominated for the 2016 Women of Distinction Awards.
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