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Highlights from 2017-2018

Dr. Selene Etches named Outstanding Two faculty members awarded by Doctors NS
Clinician for 2017 Drs. Keri-Leigh Cassidy and Pippa Moss were successful
Dr. Selene Etches was nominated by her peers, and recipients of two of the Doctors Nova Scotia’s annual
was the successful recipient of the 2017 Outstanding achievement awards. Dr. Cassidy was the recipient
Clinician Award in the Department of Psychiatry. The of Doctors Nova Scotia’s Physician Health Promotion
award recognizes someone who has made outstanding Award. This award is given to a physician who has made
contributions to the department’s mandate of providing an outstanding contribution to health promotion, safety
excellence in clinical care. Dr. Etches has devoted the and preventative care among Nova Scotians. Dr. Moss
last five years to caring for a unique and complex group is the recipient of Doctors Nova Scotia’s Rural Physician
of adolescents with concurrent disorders in mental of the Year Award. This award is bestowed upon a rural
health and addictions. She has become a provincial physician who has made an outstanding contribution to
leader in evidence-based treatments of substance use the health of individuals, to various community groups and/
disorders and a passionate advocate and educator for her or to non-profit organizations in rural communities of Nova
patient population. Her dedication to increasing access Scotia. Both physicians received awards at a ceremony at
to evidence-based care for youth with substance use the World Trade and Convention Centre on June 3, 2017
disorders has led to a subspecialty clinic with community during the Achievement Awards Ceremony and Luncheon
outreach and services ranging across the continuum during Doctors Nova Scotia’s 163rd annual conference.
from outpatient to inpatient levels of care. Her expertise
is widely recognized provincially and nationally. Her Dr. Cindy Calkin awarded NARSAD grant
colleagues sing her praises and say that she has truly Dr. Cindy Calkin was awarded a NARSAD Independent
transformed how our health centre and our province Investigator Award from the Brain and Behaviour Research
approaches addictions and concurrent mental health Foundation. A NARSAD Grant is one of the highest
disorders in youth. She is an inspiration to the trainees, distinctions in the field of mental health research. This year
faculty, clinicians and patients she works with and most they awarded $3.9 million to 40 mid-career scientists for
deserving of the Outstanding Clinician Award for 2017. basic research to understand what happens in the brain
to cause mental illness; new technologies to advance

Dr. Selene Etches receives the 2017 Outstanding Clinician Award from Dr. Cindy Calkin
Dr. Michael Teehan.

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