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Joint Mental Health Research & Innovation Day 2024

The Role of Compassion in Mental Health Research: Insights Driving Care

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Hello everyone,

We would like to give a big thank you to our keynote speaker, Dr. Shane Sinclair, our presenters, the scientific planning committee members, all the evaluators and facilitators, and all the attendees for making our 2024 Joint Mental Health Research and Innovation Day a tremendous success!  A special shout-out to our staff: Natasha Good, Julie Walsh, Taryn Sendzik, Nattasha Clements, Melissa Taylor-Gates and Renee Hunt who had time for little else in the weeks leading up to this event. It truly takes a team to pull off such an event and we are so fortunate for having such a great team.

We are happy to report over 125 registrants were in attendance. 

Please join us in congratulating the following award recipients:

Best Poster - Trainee $150
Batool Rahal:
Treatment non-completion in an Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for persons with Stroke: A qualitative analysis

Best Poster - Overall $150
Jenny Liu:
Environmental Scan and Rapid Review of Mental Health and Wellbeing Programs for Veteran Family Members

Best Oral Presentation – Trainee $200
Miray Youssef:
The Cognitive Impact of Adolescent Nicotine Vapour Exposure on the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex

Best Oral Presentation - Overall $200
Renee Hunt:
Transforming Mental Health and Addiction Care: Mindful Social Innovation as a Catalyst of Chance

 

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 Thank you very much,

Arlene MacDougall, MD MSc FRCPC (she/her)

Psychiatrist and Director of Research and Innovation for
Mental Health
Lawson Research Institute
St. Joseph’s Health Care London

Associate Professor and Director of Research
Department of Psychiatry
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Western University


 

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