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Special Events: • Best Graduate Student Café Scientifique
Research Day Presentation: Christiane Whitehouse The Café Scientifique, entitled
– The impact of depression and Personalized Medicine: Challenges
On Nov. 10, the 27th annual anxiety symptoms on information and Opportunities, was held at the
Department of Psychiatry Research processing speed in MS and other Collaborative Health Education
Day took place at the Lord Nelson immune-mediated inflammatory Building on the evening of November
Hotel gathering together 125 diseases. 9. The event was moderated by Dr.
faculty, students, staff members and George Robertson, and featured
researchers for 24 informative poster • Best Resident Presentation: Dr. presentations by Drs. David Gardner
presentations and 12 outstanding oral Kathleen Singh – CBT express: using and Rudolf Uher and the Research
presentations including a talk from the Fountain of Health for knowledge Day keynote, Dr. Roy Perlis. An
keynote speaker Dr. Roy Perlis of transfer and behaviour change. engaging discussion followed the
Harvard University titled Probabilistic • Best Junior Faculty Presentation: three talks with members of the
Medicine: How do we get there from Dr. Jacob Cookey – A retrospective audience and the panel.
here?
database study of the impact of
Research Day prizes were awarded alcohol use on clinical outcomes in
to: early phase psychosis.

• Best Undergraduate Presentation: • Best Psychiatry Staff Presentation:
Tristan Park – The role of resilience in Dr. Candice Crocker - A pilot study
substance use in Mi'kmaq youth. of NODDI measures- Validation of a
multishell protocol and preliminary
data in cannabis users. Research Day presenters, judges and winners: (top
L-R) Drs. Michael Teehan, George Robertson, and
Allan Abbass; (middle L-R) Drs. Sherry Stewart and
Rudolf Uher; (front L-R) Tristan Park, Drs. Kathleen
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