INMHA Institute Advisory Board

The Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction's (INMHA) Advisory Board includes a diverse group of national and international representatives of the public, private and non-profit sectors, including the research community and health practitioners. The Institute Advisory Board (IAB) provides support and guidance to our Scientific Director and CIHR's Governing Council with respect to the full range of Institute activities.

For more information about the IABs, please consult CIHR's Institute Advisory Boards page.

Members

(as of September 2012)

Isabelle Brunette, MD (Chair)
Associate Professor
Director of Research and Post-Graduate Studies
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Montreal

Jaideep Baines, PhD
Associate Professor
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Senior Scholar
Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Department of Physiology
University of Calgary

Jean-Francois Boivin, PhD
Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
McGill University

Karen D. Davis, PhD
Professor, Department of Surgery
Associate Director, Institute of Medical Science
University of Toronto
Head, Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour – Systems Neuroscience
Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network

Suzanne Desjardins, PhD
Director of the Office of Research and Surveillance
Controlled Substances and Tobacco Directorate
Health Canada

Andrew Greenshaw, PhD
Professor
Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Department of Psychiatry
University of Alberta

Deanna Groetzinger
Vice-President, Government Relations & Policy Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada

Brian A. MacVicar, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of British Columbia

Douglas Munoz, PhD
Professor of Physiology, Psychology and Medicine
Director; Queen's Centre for Neuroscience Studies
Queens University

Eric Racine, PhD
Director of the Neuroethics Research Unit
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

Sherry Stewart, PhD
Professor Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology
Dalhousie University

Gustavo Turecki, MD, PhD
Vice-Chair, Research and Academic Affairs, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Director, McGill Group for Suicide Studies
Head, Depressive Disorders Program
Douglas Institute

Valerie Verge, PhD
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Director of the Cameco MS Neuroscience Research Center
University of Saskatchewan