People's Health Matters

Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, 1:10-2:30 p.m.
Health Sciences Centre, main auditorium

Bio: Dr. Arlene MacDougall is an Assistant Professor (clinician-researcher) with the Department of Psychiatry at Western and a consultant psychiatrist with the Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychoses (PEPP) in London, Ontario. After obtaining her medical degree from the University of British Columbia, she went on to complete her psychiatry residency, masters in neuroscience and the Royal College Clinician Investigator Program at McMaster University. She subsequently performed a joint-fellowship in Global Psychiatry and First Episode Psychosis at Dalhousie University, where she continues to hold an adjunct faculty position. She is the faculty lead on a multi-year collaborative partnership between the health and social service authorities of the Northwest Territories and Dalhousie’s Department of Psychiatry focused on developing local capacity in mental health services across the territories. Her research interests include mental health service delivery for Aboriginal and remote populations, and the use of social businesses, participatory video and mindfulness meditation interventions to support the recovery of people with serious mental illnesses.

Bio: Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry is the director of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research unit at the University of Western Ontario. She established the Traumatic Stress Service and the Traumatic Stress Service Workplace Program, services that specialize in the treatment and research of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and related comorbid disorders. She currently holds the Harris-Woodman Chair in Mind-Body Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario.  Her research interests focus on studying the neurobiology of PTSD and treatment outcome research examining various pharmacological and psychotherapeutic methods. She has authored more than 100 published papers and chapters in the field of traumatic stress and is currently funded by several federal funding agencies.  She regularly lectures on the topic of PTSD nationally and internationally. She has recently published a book ‘The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease’ with Eric Vermetten and Clare Pain.


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