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' = 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 (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 & 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 – 2022 (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

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 - 2023 (present)

OMA (Ontario Medical Association) Section on Primary Care Mental Health

Education Committee
2018 - 2023 (present)

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

2019 - 2023 (present) 

NESY 2023  17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
Program Committee 2023

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

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)