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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Education
Director: Dr. Lukas Propper
Learners in Child & Malla, professor of psychiatry at IWK Faculty Retreats
Adolescent Psychiatry McGill University. Dr. Malla holds The Division of Child and Adolescent
a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair
The division of Child & Adolescent in Early Psychosis, with a cross Psychiatry hosted their bi-annual
Psychiatry at the IWK is excited appointment in the Department of faculty retreats on April 7, 2017
to announce that we now have a Epidemiology, and is an editor of and Nov. 17 2017. The April retreat
permanent, dedicated call room the Journal of Social Psychiatry and was well attended by 14 child and
for our residents. The call room Psychiatric Epidemiology. He is the adolescent psychiatrists from across
is located on the 7th floor of the nominated principal investigator Nova Scotia. Topics included:
Children’s building, K7112. Keys to of a $25M grant for a national Metabolic Side Effects of Atypical
the call room can be signed out from research project on transformation Antipsychotics in Youth (Dr. Herb
the EMHAS office. of youth mental health services in Orlik) and Supervising PGY5 and
PGY6 Subspecialty Residents (Dr.
Canada (ACCESS Open Minds), Dave Lovas). On Nov. 17, 2017
Annual Atlantic Provinces funded jointly by the Graham at University Hall on Dalhousie’s
Child & Adolescent Boeckh Foundation and CIHR under Studley campus the second retreat
Psychiatry Conference the Strategy for Patient Oriented took place with topics: Delivering
Research (SPOR). Dr. Malla’s
(APCAPC) 2017 presentation, Transforming Youth Effective Feedback (Drs. Mark
Bosma and Cheryl Murphy) and
The 10th Annual Atlantic Provinces Mental Health Services in Canada: Autism and ADHD Controversies (Dr.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ACCESS Open Minds was an Lukas Propper). This retreat was well
Conference took place May 26 to 28 excellent illustration of the complexity attended with 18 faculty members in
at White Point Beach Resort. This of society, highlighting the need for attendance.
year’s conference was well attended sophistication of services without
by over 25 child and adolescent losing track of the individual. CACAP Conference
psychiatrists from across the The Canadian Academy of Child and
province. The theme of this year’s We were fortunate to have many Adolescent Psychiatry’s (CACAP)
conference was Transitions in Youth other talented presenters including 38th Annual Conference will be
Mental Health, focusing on transitions Debbie Phillips, and Drs. Celia hosted in Halifax from Sept. 16-18,
across the lifespan in areas such as Robichaud, Lukas Propper, Stan 2018. More information can be found
education, clinical service delivery, Kutcher, David Lovas, Sabina Abidi, on the CACAP website at: http://www.
community outreach and research. and Jonathan Brake. cacap-acpea.org/en/cacap/Annual_
Our keynote speaker was Dr. Ashok Conference_p811.html
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