Brief CV

Brief CV  (answering questions patients ask me sometimes)

'MD' = 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, but usually use CCFP as that is immediately recognizable.)

High School -- Montreal, Quebec
Undergraduate University -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (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 Emergency Clinics, Toronto, Ontario 1996- 1999

Work in Psychiatry & Psychotherapy:

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 – 2021 (present)

2017 Theratree Award - Medical Psychotherapy Association Canada

2018 BICA Society Outstanding Research Award Diploma -- Ninth Annual International   Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2018) held on   August 2018 as part of the Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial   Intelligence  (HLAI-18)
https://www.respekt.cz/spolecnost/muze-pocitac-trpet-psychozou

2019 BICA Society Outstanding Research Award Diploma -- Tenth Annual   International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive  Architectures for Artificial   Intelligence (2019 BICA*AI) (name change in BICA)

2020 BICA Society Outstanding Research Award Diploma -- Eleventh Annual   International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive  Architectures for Artificial   Intelligence (2020 BICA*AI)

Association Participation:

Physician Examiner for The Medical Council of Canada
LMCC Part II Clinical examination   1994 - 2019

Board of Directors of MDPAC (Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada)
2008 - 2013
Chair of MDPAC (Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada)
2011 - 2013

Certificant Review Committee, MDPAC
2013 - 2021 (present)

Journal Committee, MDPAC
2007 - 2021 (present)

OMA (Ontario Medical Association) Section on Primary Care Mental Health
Education Committee
2018 - 2021 (present)

Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence (BICA*AI)
Annual International Conference  -- Program Committee

2019 - 2021 (present)

Publications:

Recent Presentations and Publications related to medical psychotherapy/ psychiatry work are listed on the page 'Publications and Presentations'

Hobbies, Interests:

Artificial Intelligence
(Interest in the merging of symbolic and subsymbolic (neural network-like) functions in cognitive architectures, ie, to create artificial models of brain functioning.)