Brief CV
Brief CV (answering questions patients ask me sometimes and quick reference to papers for colleagues)
Dr Howard Schneider, MD, MDPAC(C), CCFP, FCFP
Sheppard Clinic North, Vaughan, Canada
'MD' = 'MD CM' = Medical Doctor (McGill University)
'MDPAC(C)' = Certificant Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada
'CCFP' = Certificant College Family Physicians of Canada
('Board Certified', a term often heard in various media, refers to US doctors. In Canada, family doctors can be certified in being 'certificants' of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.)
'FCFP' = Fellow College of Family
Physicians of Canada
(A designation awarded for continued studies and contributions in areas of family medicine. I have both CCFP and FCFP designations.)
High School
-- Montreal, Quebec
Undergraduate University -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (biomedical (biomaterials) engineering degree), Cambridge,
USA
Medical School -- McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Internship -- McGill University, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
Work in
Family Practice:
Centre Médical I.D.S., Montréal,
Québec 1986- 1995
MCI Walk-in Clinics (urgent care), Toronto, Ontario 1996- 1999
Work in Psychiatry &
Psychotherapy & Related Areas:
Cité de la Santé Hospital, Laval, Québec
(Université de Montréal teaching hospital in psychiatry)
Emergency Department with Admitting Privileges in Psychiatry
1986- 1995
Sheppard Associates/ Sheppard Clinic/ Sheppard Clinic North, Toronto/GTA, Ontario
Community Psychiatry & Psychotherapy 1999 – 2025 (present)
2017 Theratree Award - Medical Psychotherapy Association Canada
2018 BICA Society Outstanding Research Award Diploma --
Ninth Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
https://www.respekt.cz/spolecnost/muze-pocitac-trpet-psychozou
2022 BICA Society Best Innovative Research Award Diploma -- Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence
2023 BICA Society Best Innovative Research Award Diploma "...for The Emergence of Compositionality in a Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architecture" -- Fourteenth Annual International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence
2024 Elsevier Certified Peer Reviewer
2025 Lifeboat Foundation, appointed Robotics/AI Advisory Board Member
2025 Lifeboat Foundation, appointed Psychology Advisory Board Member
(advisory discourse only; no operational
activities)
2025 Springer Nature Trusted Reviewer
Association Participation:
Physician Examiner for The Medical Council
of Canada
-LMCC Part II Clinical examination 1994 - 2019
-National Assessment Clinical
examination 2025 (present)
Board of Directors of MDPAC (Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada)
2008 - 2013
Chair of MDPAC (Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada)
2011 - 2013
OMA (Ontario Medical Association) Section on Primary Care Mental Health
Education Committee
2018 - 2023
Certificant Review Committee, MDPAC
2013 - 2025 (present)
Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence (BICA*AI)
Annual International Conference -- Program Committee
2019 - 2025 (present)
AGI Society AGI-25 Annual AGI Conference -- Program Committee
2025 (present) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r3YxKGdxzk
Journal Peer Reviewer (What is peer review?):
Journal Peer Reviewer (2022):
-Cognitive Systems Research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cognitive-systems-research
-Machines (Mechatronic and Intelligent Machines section)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/machines
-Frontiers in Psychiatry
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry
-Biomedicines (Neuropsychiatric content)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomedicines
-Heliyon/Cell Press (AI content)
https://www.cell.com/heliyon/aims-and-scope
Journal Peer Reviewer (2023):
-International Journal of Molecular Sciences (neuropsychiatric related articles)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms
-Current Oncology (AI related articles)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/curroncol
-Medicina (Psychiatry section)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicina
-Sustainability (AI related articles)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability
-Computers
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers
-Trauma Care
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/traumacare
-Frontiers in Psychiatry
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry
-Cognitive Systems Research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cognitive-systems-research
-International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (psychiatry related)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
-Qeios (invited reviewer for AI/AGI articles) (open-access, open peer
review journal launched 2019)
(innovative publishing model for fast dissemination of science but suffers from lack of pre-editing)
-Electronics
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics
-Journal of Clinical Medicine (Mental Health section)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm
-Behavioral Sciences
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/behavsci
-iScience/Cell Press (AI content)
https://www.cell.com/iscience/home
Journal Peer Reviewer (2024):
-Cognitive Systems Research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cognitive-systems-research
-Heliyon/Cell
Press (AI content)
https://www.cell.com/heliyon/aims-and-scope
-Behavioral Sciences
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/behavsci
-Schizophrenia Bulletin
https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin
-Knowledge
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/knowledge
-Proceedings of the Royal Society B (neuroscience content)
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rspb
-Innovation/Cell
Press (AI content)
https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/home
-Diagnostics
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics
-Electronics
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics
-Biomolecules (neuroscience content)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomolecules
-Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jpm
-Int'l Journal of Env. Res. and Public Health (neuroscience content)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
-Medicina (Psychiatry section)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicina
-Artificial Intelligence in Health (new 2024 journal; article I peer reviewed appeared promising)
https://accscience.com/journal/AIH
-Future Internet
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet
-Brain Sciences
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/brainsci
-Scientific Reports
https://www.nature.com/srep/about
-Psychiatry International
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/psychiatryint
-Neurochemical Research (Springer Nature)
https://link.springer.com/journal/11064
-Biomedicines (Neuropsychiatric content)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomedicines
-Discover Applied Sciences (Springer
Nature)
https://link.springer.com/journal/42452
-Computers
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers
Journal Peer Reviewer
(2025):
-Diagnostics
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics
-Discover Applied Sciences (Springer Nature)
https://link.springer.com/journal/42452
-CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology (Wiley)
https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/24682322
-Psychiatry International
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/psychiatryint
-Computers
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers
-IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6221037
-Journal of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease (new journal launched Sept 2024 under Editor and Neuropsychiatrist Magda Tsolaki)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jdad
-Psychiatric Research: Neuroimaging (Elsevier)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/psychiatry-research-neuroimaging
-Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans (Elsevier)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-in-human-behavior-artificial-humans
-Applied Sciences: Biomedical Engineering Section
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/sections/biomedical_engineering
-Cognitive Systems Research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cognitive-systems-research
-Technologies
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/technologies
-Nature Scientific Reports
https://www.nature.com/srep/about
-AI Perspectives & Advances (SpringerNature)
https://link.springer.com/journal/42467
-New Ideas in Psychology (Elsevier)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/new-ideas-in-psychology
-Journal of Clinical Medicine
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm
-Brain Sciences
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/brainsci
-Qeios (AI/AGI articles)
-PLOS ONE (AI, neuroscience and psychiatric content)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/
-Nursing Reports (psychiatric content)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nursrep
-Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/expert-systems-with-applications
-Clinical Neurology -- A Section of the Journal of Clinical Medicine
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/sections/Clinical_Neurology
-Discover Artificial Intelligence (SpringerNature)
https://link.springer.com/journal/44163
-Healthcare
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare
-Journal of Intelligence
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jintelligence
-Pediatric Reports
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pediatrrep
-Journal of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jdad
-Academia Medicine and Health
https://www.academia.edu/journals/academia-medicine-and-health
-IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
https://cis.ieee.org/publications/t-cognitive-and-developmental-systems
-AI and Ethics
https://link.springer.com/journal/43681
-International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Molecular Neurobiology Section
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/sections/Molecular_Neurobiology
-AI
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ai
Publications:
'Publications and Presentations Page' (these are simply listed sequentially as they occur; MDPAC Journals are not indexed but links provided; AI-related and medical-related usually indexed differently but links provided to full papers where possible).
Hobbies, Interests:
Human Level Artificial Intelligence
("HLAI" or "AGI")
"Fooling people into thinking a program is intelligent is just not the same as building programs that actually are intelligent" (Gary Marcus)
Prompt to generative AI (e.g.. like ChatGPT but for images) :
"Show salmon swimming in a river"
(While generative AI's seem smarter than humans (e.g., they can pass medical boards and law bar exams as well as many other amazing abilities) they really have close to zero understanding of what
they are doing or of the actual subject material.)
Harvard Mark 1 Computer circa 1944 (photo taken by me at the Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, Mass., beside the washrooms actually, about 10 years ago) was an automatic electromechanical (i.e., gears and relays) calculator that could follow a sequence of instructions specified in a paper tape. It was an important step towards modern computing, as it proved that a complex series of mathematical calculations could be executed automatically.
Zuse Computer (in empty museum during cold snap in Europe 2011) -- Train ride from psychiatry conference to nearby city to see an actual Zuse computer. The Zuse Z3 (not well known for obvious sociological reasons) in 1941 (photo is a later Zuse model) is considered to be the first working programmable computer by mankind, albeit electromechanical. However, in reality it did not have direct conditional branching, i.e., the "if this then do that" you find and need in every computer language that exists. (Pseudo-conditional branching in that it could skip instructions if a "0" result was present but tedious to generalize.)
Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) (also known as the "Manchester Baby") built at the University of Manchester, UK, June 21, 1948. Vacuum tubes (not relays) for logic circuits. 32 words memory (each word 32 bits) running at 1100 instructions per second. First working computer by mankind with conditional branching (i.e., "if this, then do that") combined with a stored program. It was capable of running any algorithm. Programmer and software designer, including Mark1 successor: Alan Turing (RIP 1954).
[The Colossus (Bletchley park, 1943) had hardwired programmability only for cryptographic codes. The ENIAC (US Army, 1945) had conditional branching but required manual rewiring to enter programs (i.e., did not really store programs internally).]
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