(2023) Dr. Georgiades holds the David R. (Dan) Offord Chair in Child Studies and is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and the Offord Centre for Child Studies. Her program of research seeks to improve child and youth mental health at the population level and reduce inequities in access to effective mental health care. To achieve these goals, she works on designing, implementing, analyzing and disseminating evidence from epidemiologic studies in the general population to inform integrative mental health science, policy and practice. She is particularly interested in underserved population subgroups, including immigrants, refugees, racial and ethnic minoritized children and youth, as well as those living in socio-economically disadvantaged communities.

(2022) Dr. Kurdyak is Director of Health Outcomes and Performance Evaluation in the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and Medical Director of Performance Improvement at CAMH. He is also Lead of the Mental Health and Addictions Research Program at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Dr. Kurdyak studies clinical epidemiology and health service utilization. His work provides better understanding for the determinants of and barriers to treatment for mental illnesses; explores the relationship and interaction between chronic medical and mental illnesses; and develops methodology expertise in observational research design as it relates to the study of mental health epidemiology.

(2021) Dr. Colman is the Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Epidemiology, and directs the Applied Psychiatric Epidemiology Across the Life course (APEAL) Lab. His research program investigates the epidemiology of common mental illnesses in the general population. His current focus is understanding longitudinal and life-course processes surrounding depression and anxiety, with a particular interest in identifying early-life factors that may predict depression and anxiety later in life. In addition, he has interests in long-term outcomes of common mental disorders and their treatment, and the epidemiology of suicidal behaviour.

(2020) Dr. Afifi is an associate professor in the Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, Max Rady College of Medicine. Dr. Afifi primary research interests in the area of child maltreatment including: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, physical punishment, and exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV). She has used population-based data from Canada, the United States, and the Netherlands to investigate mental and physical health correlates of child maltreatment. Her work currently examines: the size and scope of the problem of child maltreatment in Canada; risk and protective factors related to child maltreatment; how to foster resilience following child maltreatment; effective child maltreatment intervention strategies; and how to effectively prevent child maltreatment.

(2018) Dr. JianLi Wang is a Professor of the School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, crossly appointed at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa. Dr. Wang’s research interests are in two areas: workplace mental health and risk prediction analytics. In the domain of workplace mental health, Dr. Wang is leading a national team project on early identification and prevention of major depression in male workers.

(2017) Dr. John Cairney is a full professor in the Faculty of Kinesiolo- gy & Physical Education and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His research expertise encom- passes developmental coordination disorders and its conse- quences, mental health, and psychiatric epidemiology. He has been a prolific and innovative epidemiologist, a mentor to many, and a strong supporter of CAPE.

(2016) Dr. Harriet MacMillan is a psychiatrist and pediatrician who has conducted important research in a number of areas, with an emphasis on investigations of family violence. From 1993 until 2004, Harriet served as the founding Director of the Child Advocacy and Assessment Program (CAAP) at McMaster Children’s Hospital,a multidisciplinary program committed to reducing the burden of suffering associated with family violence.

(2015) Dr. Stephen Kisely was recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field of psychiatric epidemiology in Canada, in particular his work on chronic disease in persons with serious and persistent mental illness and his contributions to health services research in mental health.

(2015) Dr. Elliot Goldner was a highly respected leader in Canadian Psychiatric Epidemiology, pioneering work on population level approaches to improving the quality of services in mental health and addictions in Canada. The recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Goldner has had a truly significant impact on mental health policy in Canada.

(2013) Dr. Angus (Gus) Thompson has been a leading figure in psychiatric epidemiology for the past 30 years. He collaborated with Dr. Bland in several analyses arising from the highly influential Edmonton Study. A long time member of CAPE, he has made substantial contributions to the organization since its inception, and played a pivotal role in psychiatry through his research and work with all levels of government.

(2012) Dr. Arboleda-Flórez has spent his lifelong career advancing psychiatric epidemiology. He was president of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology (1998 to 2008) and Director of the WHO Regional Unit for Research and Training in Mental Health at the University of Calfary (1993-1998). He has published over 300 scientific papers and technical reports in the areas of psychiatric epidemiology, mental health services, public mental health, mental health ethnics and forensic psychiatry.

(2011) Dr. Jitender Sareen, an epidemiological researcher, has focused national attention on the importance of treating Canadian soldiers with mental illness, revealing a strong link between a number of mental health problems and exposure to deployment-related traumatic events such as combat, peacekeeping and witnessing atrocities. His research has also demonstrated that anxiety disorders are associated with an increased risk for suicidal behaviour and has shed light on the socio-economic factors related to mental illness.

(2009) Dr. Michael Boyle is a Canada Research Chair in the Social Determinants of Child Health. The constant pursuit of his research has been to understand the social, economic and environmental factors that shape child mental health. His present research is focused on using sophisticated analytic techniques to translate empirical information into better services and access for children and their families.

(2009) Dr. Scott Patten has made a significant contribution to the advancement and diffusion of Canadian psychiatric epidemiology in the area of mood disorders. His current research seeks to integrate the various epidemiologic estimates such as incidence, recurrence, prevalence, recovery and mortality into a comprehensive description of the epidemiologic pattern. He is exploring the use of simulation methods to achieve this goal. He is also working to describe the adverse health consequences of depressive disorders and how these combine with chronic medical conditions.

(2008) Dr. Richard Boyer was recognized for his pioneering work in public mental health, in both Quebec and Canada. Through his work with governmental statistical agencies in both Quebec and Canada he has contributed greatly to knowledge transfer and has fostered an awareness within government about the importance of mental health problems in public health.

(2007) Dr. Alain Lesage was recognized for his research into the service needs of the mentally ill–principally the severely mentally ill–using evaluative, epidemiological and health services approaches. His research assists national and regional planners, clinical decision-makers and health and social services managers offer better services in a balanced mental health care system.

(2006) Dr. Carl D’Arcy was recognized for a lifetime of dedication to the study of the interface between population health, epidemiology and sociology. His work examines many topics such as the sociology of health, health care systems, aging in Canada, the sociological factors that effect the rates of drug abuse, delivery patterns of psychiatric care, nursing practices in rural Canada and public attitudes towards mental illness.

(2005) Dr. Nicholas Kates was recognized for leadership and dedication to health care research and the health of the Canadian population. He is a national and international expert on shared-care modes of primary care in psychiatry, an area on which he has written extensively and conducted research through grants from Ontario and national research granting bodies.

(2004) Dr. David Streiner was recognized for continuous, innovative and inspirational teaching of methods relevant to psychiatric epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, clinical research and knowledge transfer.

(2003) Professor Jane Murphy directed the Stirling County Study, a long-term investigation of psychiatric epidemiology in a general population that has laid the foundation for a 40-year perspective on trends regarding prevalence, incidence, course of illness and mortality.

(2002) Dr. Morton Beiser was recognized for exceptional commitment and scientific work toward culturally sensitive health care and the use of epidemiological approaches.

(2001) Dr. Paula Goering was recognized for her work in health systems research including the authorship in 1997 of Best Practices in Mental Health Reform and numerous mental health policy studies, and the design and analysis of the Ontario Mental Health Supplement to the Ontario Health Survey in the 1990s.

(2000) Dr. David (Dan) Offord was a leading expert on child development, a child psychiatrist, clinician and research scientist who, beginning in the 1980s, addressed the general lack of evidence-based research about the mental and emotional development of children in Canada. He understood there was a need to learn about and address the concerns of children on a broader scale beyond the one-on-one interactions of a psychiatrist’s office. To address this issue he initiated a groundbreaking research project, the 1983 Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS), Canada’s first large-scale observational study of children within families. For the first time, comprehensive, reliable research showed that one in five children was experiencing some form of mental health issue.

(1999) Dr. Roger Bland was a dedicated and successful academic psychiatrist and an excellent mentor, teacher, and advocate for the mentally ill. He was frequently invited all over the world as a guest speaker and made over 160 such presentations. He received many professional honors such as the Medal for Distinguished Service from the Alberta Medical Association, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. In 2012 he was appointed a member of the Order of Canada for his community service.