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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. Daniel Moreno De Luca, Interim Director

morenode@ualberta.ca

 

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 Mike Martyna

mrmartyn@ualberta.ca

Associate Directors - Resident Program

Dr. Cait Earle

caearle@ualberta.ca

Associate Directors - Resident Program

Dr. Lenka Zedkova

lzedkova@ualberta.ca

 

 

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

Brittany Labiuk

psych.deptco@ualberta.ca

AMHSP Coordinator

Jodi Gloss

psychfec@ualberta.ca

Time4MH Program Assistant

Khrystyna Lukyanets

time4mh@ualberta.ca

Graduate Program & Research Administrator

Vacant

psychiat@ualberta.ca

Clinical Coordinator

N Loewen

psycrsch@ualberta.ca

 

Medical Education Administration

 

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

Medical Education Clerkship

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 Emeritus

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

 

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

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No

Daniel Moreno De Luca

Professor

morenode@ualberta.ca

Prisma Website

 Autism Spectrum Disorder, Precision Medicine, Psychiatric Genetics, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Genomics, Rare Genetic Variants, Copy Number Variants, Genetic Testing, Genotype–Phenotype Relationships, Translational Research, Personalized Treatment, Neuropsychiatric Genetics

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

Jeremy Weleff

Assistant Professor

 weleff@ualberta.ca

Lab Webpage

Addiction psychiatry, opioid use disorder, emerging psychoactive substances, and novel treatment approaches, psychedelic-assisted therapies, social determinants of mental health and substance use, health inequities, strategies to improve access to care for underserved populations

 No

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