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Department of Psychiatry

University Of Alberta
4-142A Katz Group Centre for Research
11315 - 87 Ave NW
Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2H5
Tel: (780) 492-2487

Career Opportunities

Visit the U of A Careers Website for all current career opportunities.

Central Administration

Department Chair

Dr. David Ross

daross2@ualberta.ca

Director of Faculty Affairs

Dr. Alberto Choy

achoy@ualberta.ca

Director of EDI

Dr. Hannah Pazderka

hannah@ualberta.ca

Director of Education

Dr. Lindy VanRiper

vanriper@ualberta.ca

Director of Research

Dr. Yifeng Wei

yifeng.wei@ualberta.ca

Academic Department Manager

Stephanie Russell

stephanie.russell@ualberta.ca

Divisions

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Alice Leung, Director

alicel@ualberta.ca

780-407-1611

 

Division of Community Psychiatry

Dr. Mobolaji Lawal, Director

Mobolaji.Lawal@recoveryalberta.ca

Division of Forensic Psychiatry

Dr. Alberto Choy, Director

achoy@ualberta.ca

 

Division of Clinical Psychology

Dr. Greg Schoepp, Acting Director

greg.schoepp@albertahealthservices.ca

780-407-6895

Education

Undergraduate Medical Education (Preclinical)

Dr. Ron Oswald, Director

roswald@ualberta.ca

780-342-7944

Undergraduate Medical Education (Clinical)

Dr. Alberto Choy, Director

alberto.choy@albertahealthservices.ca

Graduate Program

Dr. Andy Holt, Director

aholt@ualberta.ca

Resident Program Director

Dr. Yanbo Zhang

yanbo9@ualberta.ca

780-407-6938

Associate Directors - Resident Program

Dr. Mike Martyna

mrmartyn@ualberta.ca

780-407-6938

Associate Directors - Resident Program

Dr. Lenka Zedkova

lzedkova@ualberta.ca

780-407-6938

Resident Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Subspecialty Program

Dr. Kim Dary

capspd@ualberta.ca

Resident Program Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Subspecialty Program

Dr. Stephanie Magnan

geripsyc@ualberta.ca

Resident Program Director, Forensic Psychiatry Subspecialty Program

Dr. Raheel Syed

raheel@ualberta.ca

Director - Resident Research

Dr. Ade Sapara

asapara@ualberta.ca

Administrative Support Staff

Department Coordinator

Haley Larocque

psych.deptco@ualberta.ca

AMHSP & Communications Coordinator

Meaghan Lien

psycomm@ualberta.ca

Department Assistant

Khrystyna Lukyanets

psycadm@ualberta.ca

Graduate Program & Research Administrator

Vacant

psychiat@ualberta.ca

Clinical Coordinator

Nicole Loewen

psycrsch@ualberta.ca

Medical Education Team Lead

Kay Kovithavongs

psychetl@ualberta.ca

Medical Education Program Administrators

General Psychiatry

Dana Black and Sreya Jacob

psycpgme@ualberta.ca

 

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry &
Geriatric Psychiatry

Ariane Bakhtiar

capadmin@ualberta.ca

geripsyc@ualberta.ca

AFC Addiction Medicine &
Forensic Psychiatry

Johanne Weber

psychafc@ualberta.ca

forpsych@ualberta.ca

 

UME Program

Chelsey Konowalyk

umepsych@ualberta.ca

Faculty

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Academic Faculty

Listing of academic faculty, their contact information, research keywords, and availability for graduate supervision.

Name

Contact

Research Keywords

Graduate supervision?

Katherine Aitchison

Professor

780-492-4018

kaitchis@ualberta.ca

Psychosis, pharmacogenetics, epigenetics and metabolomics.

Yes

Glen B. Baker

Professor Emeritus

780-905-5093

glen.baker@ualberta.ca

Mechanisms of action and metabolism of antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs.

No

Lorraine Breault

Professor Emeritus

780-492-6420

lorraine.breault@ualberta.ca

-

No

Pamela Brett-MacLean

Professor

Director, Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine 

780-492-0980

lorraine.breault@ualberta.ca

Medical/health humanities, medical education research, arts and health

Yes

Bo Cao

Associate Professor

bcao2@ualberta.ca

Cychiatry Lab website

Computational psychiatry, machine learning, mental disorders, precision medicine in mental health, brain imaging, brain maturation and aging Yes

Allen Chan

Assistant Professor

awchan@ualberta.ca

Allen Chan's citations

Autism, mesoscale imaging, optogenetics Yes

Alberto Choy

Faculty Service Officer

achoy@ualberta.ca

Forensic psychiatry, violence risk assessment & management, sexual offenders, paraphillas, faculty affairs

No

Serdar Dursun

Professor

dursun@ualberta.ca

Psychosis, schizophrenia, clinical psychopharmacology

Yes

Andrew Greenshaw

Professor

780-667-2599

andy.greenshaw@ualberta.ca

Biological Psychiatry

 Yes

Andrew Holt

Associate Professor

aholt@ualberta.ca

Molecular pharmacology and kinetic analyses of amine oxidases and other enzymes Yes

Satyabrata Kar

Professor

780-492-9357

skar@ualberta.ca

Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease

Yes

Jean-Michel LeMelledo

Professor

780-407-6578

jean-michel.lemelledo@ualberta.ca

Hormonal influences on mood and anxiety disorders

Yes

Xin-Min Li

Professor

Associate Dean, FoMD, Faculty Affairs Office 

780-718-9269

xinmin@ualberta.ca

Preclinical models of mental disorders, computational psychiatry

Yes

Nikolai Malykhin

Professor

780-248-1120

nikolai.malykhin@ualberta.ca

Malykhin Lab website

Mood disorders, stress, healthy neurocognitive aging, neuroimaging Yes

Nicholas Mitchell

Professor

780-407-6564

ndm@ualberta.ca

-

No

Peter Silverstone

Professor

780-407-6576

peter.silverstone@ualberta.ca

Clinical translational research; psychiatry outcomes research

No

Laura Stovel

Professor

Assistant Dean, FoMD, Undergrad Medical Education

780-407-8725

lstovel@ualberta.ca

Psychotherapy, group therapy, supervision, medical education

No

Kathryn Todd

Professor

Provost & Vice-President Academic - Admin

780-492-6591

kgtodd@ualberta.ca

Cellular mechanisms in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders

Yes

Yifeng Wei

Associate Professor

yifeng.wei@ualberta.ca

Mental health literacy, child and youth mental health, school mental health, mental health promotion and prevention, school-based suicide prevention, knowledge translation and implementation science

Yes

Ian Winship

Professor

Associate Vice-President (Research Development and Services)

780-492-8658

iwinship@ualberta.ca

Winship Lab website

Stroke, schizophrenia, neuroimaging

Yes

Yanbo Zhang

Professor

yanbo.zhang@ualberta.ca

Yanbo Zhang's OrcID Profile

Interventional psychiatry, novel treatments

Yes