Executive Committee

Benicio N. Frey, MD, MSc, PhD
Principal Investigator, McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Hamilton Research (Hamilton, Ontario)
Academic Appointment
- Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University; Academic Head, Mood Disorders Program, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (Hamilton, Ontario)
Expertise
- Neuroimaging, Sleep and Biological Rhythms, Women’s Mental Health
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Pierre Blier, MD, PhD
Site Lead, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario)

Faranak Farzan, PhD
EEG Platform Lead

Jane Foster, PhD
Co-Lead, Drug Discovery & Reverse Translation Platform
Co-Lead, Molecular Platform
Financial Manager

Sidney Kennedy, MD, FRCPC
Site Lead, St. Michael’s Hospital & University Health Network (Toronto, Ontario)

Raymond Lam, MD, FRCPC
Site Lead, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Co-Lead, Clinical Platform

Francesco Leri, PhD
Site Lead, University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario)
Co-Lead, Drug Discovery & Reverse Translation Platform

Glenda MacQueen, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Former Site Lead, University of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta)
Former Co-Lead, Neuroimaging Platform
Dr. MacQueen was a key person, founding member and a brilliant contributor to CAN-BIND. She sadly passed away on March 26, 2020.

Roumen Milev, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, FRCPC
Site Lead, Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario)
Co-Lead, Clinical Platform

Daniel Mueller, MD, PhD
Site Lead, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) (Toronto, Ontario)

Sagar Parikh, MD
Lead, Knowledge Translation Platform

Susan Rotzinger, PhD
Program Manager

Stephen Strother, PhD
Co-Lead, Neuroimaging Platform

Claudio Soares, MD, PhD, FRCPC, MBA
Lead, Strategy & New Partnerships
Lead, M-health, Innovation and Technology Research Platform

Valerie H Taylor, MD, PhD
Site Lead, University of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta)

Gustavo Turecki, MD, PhD
Site Lead, McGill University
Co-Lead, Molecular Platform

Rudolf Uher, MD, PhD
Lead, Data Science Platform