*Supervisors listed below are approved Research Supervisors for the Psychiatry Graduate Program. However, please be advised that a number of faculty members in the Department of Psychiatry supervise students in other programs as well. Students outside the Psychiatry Graduate Program may refer to our Researchers list for other potential supervisors.
jorge.armony [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Jorge Armony, PhD) Associate Professor |
Emotion, fMRI, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. |
serge.beaulieu [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Serge Beaulieu, MD, PhD) Associate Professor |
Affective Disorders. |
//david.benrihmoh [at] mcgill.ca">Dr. David. Benrimoh, MD, MSc Assistant Professor |
schizophrenia, early psychosis, psychosis risk, rTMS, computational psychiatry |
marcelo.berlim [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Marcelo Berlim, MD) Associate Professor |
Neuromodulation ; mood disorders and suicidal behavior |
veronique.bohbot [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Veronique Bohbot, PhD) Associate Professor |
Auditory and spatial memory, virtual reality, plasticity. |
diane.boivin [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr Diane Boivin, MD, PhD) Professor |
Sleep, circadian rhythms, affective disorders. |
mark.brandon [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Mark Brandon, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Neural circuits of memory |
marie-josee.brouillette [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Marie-Josee Brouillette, MD, FRCPC) Associate Professor |
HIV and cognition, RASCH analysis, Interferon-alpha and depression |
alain.brunet [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Alain Brunet, PhD) Professor |
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
nicolas.cermakian [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Nicolas Cermakian, PhD) Professor |
Circadian rhythms in the context of mental health and immunity. |
eduardo.chachamovich [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Eduardo Chachamovich) Assistant Professor |
Social and clinical determinants of health in Aboriginal populations, suicide ideation and behaviours |
megha.chakravarty [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Mallar Chakravarty, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Computational brain anatomy |
dara.charney [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Dara A. Charney, MD) Associate Professor |
treatment for alcohol use disorders |
bruno.debruille [at] mcgill.ca (Dr J. Bruno Debruille, MD, PhD) Associate Professor |
Cognitive and social neuroscience of consciousness and psychiatric disorders |
simon.ducharme [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Simon Ducharme) Assistant Professor |
Longitudinal changes in brain development; neuroimaging |
david.dunkley [at] mcgill.ca (Dr David M. Dunkley, PhD) Associate Professor |
Cognitive-personality vulnerability to depression; perfectionism; stress; coping; emotion regulation
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frank.elgar [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Frank Elgar) Associate Professor |
Social inequalities in child health |
salah.elmestikawy [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Salah El Mestikawy, PhD) Professor |
Glutamatergic systems in the normal and pathological brain |
catherine.fichten [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Catherine Fichten, PhD) Associate Professor |
Clinical psychology (disabilities, sleep) |
flemar [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr Marie-Josée Fleury, PhD) Associate Professor |
Organizational and adequacy of mental health services |
cecilia.flores [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Cecilia Flores, PhD) Associate Professor |
Cellular and molecular mechanisms by which experiences in adolescence alter ongoing brain development, rendering individuals susceptible or resilient to psychiatric disorders |
guillaume.galbaud_du_fort [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Guillaume Galbaud Du Fort) Associate Professor |
Assessment of screening tools for depression in medically ill populations |
marie-claude.geoffroy [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Marie-Claude Geoffroy) Associate Professor |
Epidemiology of suicide and related mental disorders across lifespan |
bruno.giros [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Bruno Giros, PhD) Professor |
Dopaminergic systems; neurobiology of schizophrenia and other psychopathologies |
gabriella.gobbi [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Gabriella Gobbi, MD, PhD) Professor |
Mood disorders, Cannabis, Hallucinogens, Melatonin |
ian.gold [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Ian Gold, PhD) Associate Professor |
Philosophy of psychiatry. DR GOLD WILL BE ON SABBATICAL (RESEARCH LEAVE) UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2020 |
alain.gratton [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Alain Gratton, PhD) Professor |
Function and dysfunction of mesocorticolimibic dopamine neurons |
brian.greenfield [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Brian J. Greenfield, MD) Associate Professor |
Childhood suicide: genetic predisposition, disease pathways, treatments and predictive testing |
Dr natalie.grizenko [at] mcgill.ca (Natalie Grizenko, MD) Associate Professor |
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders |
danielle.groleau [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Danielle Groleau, PhD) Associate Professor |
Qualitative methodologies; sociocultural determinants of health behavior; reporductive health; development and evaluation of school-based promotion of mental health and prevention of mental illness |
reut.gruber [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr Reut Gruber, PhD) Associate Professor |
Child development, sleep, ADHD |
lily.t.hechtman [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Lily Hechtman, MD) Professor |
Attention deficit disorders in children, adolescents and adults. Treatment development and efficacy. Long-term prospective controlled follow-up. |
srividya.iyer [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Srividya N. Iyer, PhD) Professor |
Youth mental health and early intervention for psychosis |
eric.jarvis1 [at] mcgill.ca (Dr G. Eric Jarvis, MD) Associate Professor |
Social psychiatry; first episode psychosis. |
ridha.joober [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr Ridha Joober, PhD) Professor |
Youth Mental Health and Early intervention, genetics and pharmacogenetics of psychiatric disorders |
sherif.karama [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Sherif Karama, MD, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Genetic and environmental effects of environment on brain development and corollary impacts of cognition |
laurence.kirmayer [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD) Professor |
Cultural psychiatry; psychiatric anthropology; philosophy of psychiatry; mental health of Indigenous peoples, immigrants and refugees; global mental health. |
rachel.kronick [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Rachel Cardon Kronick, MD) Assistant Professor |
Cultural psychiatry, immigration policy, immigration detention, child and family mental health, asylum seekers |
marc.laporta [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Marc Laporta, MD) Assistant Professor |
Mental health knowledge transfer and exchange |
lise.laporte [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Lise Laporte, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Borderline personality disorder; youth protection services |
eric.latimer [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Eric A. Latimer, PhD) Professor |
Mental health policy and economic evaluation |
martin.lepage [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Martin Lepage, PhD) Professor |
Comprehensive research into schizophrenia and psychosis |
marco.leyton [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Marco Leyton, PhD) Professor |
Neurobiology of substance use disorders, depression and personality traits |
eva.libman [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Eva Libman, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Sleep related aspects of behavioral medicine and health psychology |
michael.lifshitz2 [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Michael Lifshitz, PhD) Assistant Professor |
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karl.looper [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Karl J. Looper, MD) Associate Professor |
Psychosomatic research of medically unexplained symptoms and somatoform disorders; psychosocial predictors of outcomes of major medical illnesses (cancer, cardiac, arthritis). |
nancy.low [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Nancy C. P. Low, MD) Assistant Professor |
Familial risk in psychiatric disorders. Phenotypic refinement of psychiatric disorders; comorbidities; mood and anxiety disorders across community, primary care and tertiary care samples/populations. |
michael.meaney [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Michael Meaney, PhD) Professor |
Biological basis of vulnerability for psychopathology |
tony.measham [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Toby J. Measham, MD) Assistant Professor |
Transcultural child psychiatry |
naguib.mechawar [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Naguib Mechawar), PhD Professor |
Neurobiology of major depression and suicide. |
xiangfei.meng [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Xiangfei Meng, PhD) Associate Professor |
Population mental health and neuro-psychiatric epidemiology, bio-psycho-social attributes of common mental disorders; early life stress |
maxime.montembeault [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Maxime Montembeault, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Neurodegenerative diseases (primary progressive aphasia, frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer’s disease), Language, Social cognition, Emotions, Neuropsychology, Neuroimaging |
Associate Member |
Etiology of Anxiety Disorders, Intergenerational Transmission of Psychopathology, Mental Health Disorders Prevention, Emotion Regulation |
gail.myhr [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Gail A. Myhr, MD) Associate Professor |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for psychosis and other mental disorders; |
lucie.nadeau [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Lucie Nadeau, MD) Associate Professor |
Culture and context in the treatment of minority youths suffering from chronic illness |
lucie.nadeau [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Corina Nagy, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Molecular neurobiology of depression and suicide |
tuong.v.nguyen [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Tuong Vi Nguyen) Assistant Professor |
Behavioral and developmental neuroendocrinology PLEASE NOTE THAT DR NGUYEN IS CURRENTLY ON MATERNITY LEAVE |
massimiliano.orri [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Massimiliano Orri, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Risk and protective factors for suicide and self-harming behavior across the lifespan using methods from psychiatric epidemiology, developmental psychopathology, and behavioral genetics traditions |
Lena.Palaniyappan [at] lhsc.on.ca (Dr. Lena Palaniyappan,) MBBS, PhD Professor |
Youth mental health, Early intervention, Psychosis, Depression, ADHD, Neuroimaging, Brain Stimulation, Speech and Language, Machine Learning |
roberta.palmour [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Roberta M. Palmour, PhD) Professor |
Genetic analysis of major psychiatric diseases, in man and in model systems; neurochemical mechanisms in inherited metabolic diseases. Please note that Dr Palmour is not currently accepting new students. |
michel.perreault [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr Michel Perreault, PhD) Associate Professor |
Evaluation of health service systems |
myra.piat [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Myra Piat, PhD) Professor |
Mental Health Recovery |
judes.poirier [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Judes Poirier, PhD) Professor |
Genetics of Alzheimer's disease |
natasha.rajah [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Rachel Rabin, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Effects of drugs of abuse on cognitive function in psychiatric (e.g., schizophrenia) and non-psychiatric populations |
soham.rej [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Soham Rej, MD, MSc) Associate Professor |
Geriatric Psychiatry, Randomized Clinical Trials, Technology-Assisted Behavioral Interventions (Virtual Reality, Zoom, Sensors, Phenotyping, Robots), Mind-Body Interventions (Mindfulness, Meditaiton, Yoga, Tai Chi, Exercise, Health Education), Psychedelic Therapy, Late-Life Depression, Anxiety, and Dementia. We often have post-doctoral, research assistant, graduate student, and volunteer positions available. If you are interested, please send your CV to Dr. Sekhon (harmehr.sekhon [at] mail.mcgill.ca) |
johanne.renaud [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Johanne Renaud, MD) Associate Professor |
Studies on suicide risk factors in children and adolescents interventions, and trajectories of services studies. |
jesse.renaud [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Jesse Renaud, PhD) Assistant Professor |
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stephane.richard-devantoy [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Stéphane Richard-Devantoy, MD) Adjunct Professor |
Suicide, neurocognition, depression |
joseph.rochford [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr Joseph Rochford, PhD) Associate Professor |
Behavioural pharmacology of learning, memory and motivation; behavioural effects of anxiolytic and antidepressant drugs |
pedro.rosa [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Pedro Rosa-Neto, MD, PhD) Professor |
Translational neuroimaging of neurodegenerative disorders |
zeev.rosberger [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Zeev Rosberger, PhD) Associate Professor |
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cecile.rousseau [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Cecile Rousseau, MD) Professor |
Cultural psychiatry; mental health and adaptation of refugee children and adolescents from Southeast Asia, Central America and Somalia. |
jai.shah [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Jai Shah, MD) Assistant Professor |
Early intervention, first episode psychosis, at-risk mental states, youth mental health, clinical staging |
patricia.silveira [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Patricia Silveira, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Biology of developmental mechanisms in the risk for chronic adult disease. |
lalit.srivastava [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Lalit K. Srivastava, PhD) Professor |
Role of developmental mechanisms in the etiopathology of schizophrenia, brain dopamine receptor regulation, biochemical and genetic studies on neural cell adhesion molecules. |
howard.steiger [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr Howard Steiger, PhD) Professor |
Onset, course and treatment of eating disorders. |
florian.storch [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Florian Storch, PhD) Associate Professor |
Biological rhythms and psychopathology |
lea.thaler [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr Lea Thaler) Assistant Professor |
Etiology, assessment and treatment of eating disorders |
brett.thombs [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Brett D. Thombs, PhD) Professor |
Mental health screening, clinical trials, patient-engaged research, mental health in people with medical conditions, rare diseases, meta-research |
leon.tourian [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Leon Tourian), MD Assistant Professor |
Pain Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, ICU Psychiatry |
gustavo.turecki [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Gustavo Turecki, MD, PhD) Professor |
Clinical and biomedical research on major depression and suicide |
sylvia.villeneuve [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Sylvia Villeneuve, PhD) Assistant Professor |
Multimodal imaging of the aging brain |
dominique.walker [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr Clair-Dominique Walker, PhD) Professor |
Early stress, maternal regulation and neuroendocrine development |
ashley.wazana [at] mcgill.ca (D. Ashley Wazana, MD) Assistant Professor |
Early Manifestations of psychopathology; health of children with precarious immigration status; relations between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry |
robert.whitley [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Rob Whitley, PhD) Associate Professor |
Recovery, Stigma, Men’s Mental Health, Veterans’ Mental Health, Qualitative Methods, Participatory Video, Religion and Mental Health. |
sylvain.williams [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr Sylvain Williams, PhD) Professor |
Hippocampal rhythms, memory, and Alzheimer's disease |
takpan.wong [at] mcgill.ca (Dr Tak Pan Wong, PhD) Associate Professor |
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, stress; memory |