The principal investigators listed below lead project teams that are supported by other researchers and work in collaboration with Opening Minds staff.
Heather Stuart: Senior Consultant for
Opening Minds and Principal Investigator for Youth
Heather is a Professor at Queen’s University and the Bell Canada Mental Health and Anti-stigma and Research Chair. Her main
research interests are in the areas of psychi-atric epidemiology and mental health services evaluations. Her main goals have been to undertake applied research that helps policy makers and planners solve day-to-day problems and make evidence-in-formed decisions. Heather has worked in both hospital- and community-based mental health treatment systems and on international projects with the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and the World Psychiatric Association.
Carolyn Dewa: Principal Investigator for Workplace Mental Health Economics Carolyn is a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Psychiatry, as well as the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. She also heads the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s Centre for Research on Employment and Workplace Health. Carolyn currently holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Public Health Agency of Canada Applied Public Health Chair.
Keith Dobson: Co-Principal Investigator for the Workforce (West)
Keith is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary. His research inter-ests include psychological models of and treatments for various disorders, particu-larly depression. In addition, Keith has written about ethical and professional issues in mental health treatment.
Bonnie Kirsh: Co-Principal Investigator for the Workforce (East)
An Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto, Bonnie’s primary research focuses on community and work integration for persons with mental illnesses. Another area of research is work-place mental health, including trajectories of persons who experience depression at work and related issues of disability management and return to work.
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Terry Krupa: Co-Principal Investigator for the Workforce (East)
Terry is a Professor in the School of
Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University in Kingston. Her research, teaching, and practice have focused on ensuring the full and meaningful community participation of people who experience mental illnesses.
Bianca Lauria-Horner: Co-Principal Investigator for Health Care Providers Bianca is a psychiatrist and assistant profes-sor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University’s Department of Psychiatry. Her interests include teaching and leading research pro-jects, particularly the design and evaluation of community-based mental health aware-ness and promotion programs.
Scott Patten: Principal Investigator for Health Care Providers
Scott is a Professor at the University of Calgary. Scott teaches in the Department of Community Health Sciences. The focus of his work is on the longitudinal epidemiology of major depression, with the main goal of inte-grating epidemiologic estimates of incidence, recurrence, prevalence, episode duration, and mortality into a comprehensive epi-demiologic picture. He also has expertise in methodological approaches to the analysis of longitudinal data.
Robert Whitley: Principal Investigator for Mental Illness and Media Project
Rob is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and at the Douglas University Mental Health Institute. Rob has a particular interest in recovery from severe mental illness and the role of stigma and religiosity in enhancing or impeding recovery. He is conducting a sys-tematic analysis of media coverage of mental illness in Canada in order to discern whether the media is taking a more positive approach to mental health.
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