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agencies including: the Mental Health intervention programs for psychosis provincial model of care, evaluation
Commission of Canada; Canadian in Canada. In this role he ensures and research for EPP in Nova Scotia.
Center on Substance Use; Health that CCEIP reaches its mandate and The model was approved, and
Canada, Cannabis Legalization and vision, “to enhance optimum care processes have begun to roll out this
Regulation Branch (Cannabis public for Canadians in the early phase model’s deliverables.
education and awareness); and the of psychosis through improved
Canadian Public Health Association service models and the generation The Janssen Chair also keeps busy
(consultant to the public health and translation of knowledge.” fulfilling his mandate as a board
approach to cannabis). The chair Dr. Tibbo also continues as co- member of the Schizophrenia Society
is also currently working with the chair of the CPA Junior Research of Canada, chair of the Schizophrenia
Nova Scotia Department of Health Colloquium (mentoring psychiatry Society of Canada Foundation,
and Wellness as a consultant on residents in research), member of and editorial board member of the
provincial cannabis awareness and the CPA research committee, as Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. In
education. well as director of the Nova Scotia 2017, as chair of the SSCF he led the
Early Psychosis Program (NSEPP). development of a joint studentship
The chair continues as president of In 2017 he was asked by senior between the SSCF and the CCNP,
the Canadian Consortium for Early leadership of the NSHA Mental supporting two MSc students and one
Intervention in Psychosis (CCEIP), Health and Addictions to develop a PhD student in psychosis research.
the national organization of early
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