What We Do
The Psychiatry Research Office helps department reserachers advance their careers by:
- Providing mentoring and support to early career researchers, trainees and post-docs
- Facilitating proposal submissions and project support for independent clinician researchers in the department
- Coordinating the mentoring and training programs for clinician researchers
- Conducting quarterly research development seminars
- Providing infrastructure support to facilitate opportunities for collaboration across the Research Centers and clinician researchers
Areas of Focus
Our major areas of focus are relevant to the health of our clinical populations:
- Health Equity to reduce disparities in access and quality of healthcare.
- Addictions- improving treatments for gambling, opioids, and other illicit substances.
- Incorporating mindfulness and compassion practices in psychiatric treatments.
- Early Childhood Development - to advance tracking trajectories for infants raised in under-resourced environments.
- Clinical and Community-embedded prevention and implementation to assess and address psychiatric conditions, including ADHD, schizophrenia, psychosis, suicide, and others.