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, 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 the GPPA (General Practice Psychotherapy Association (Canada))
2008 - 2013
Chair of the GPPA (General Practice Psychotherapy Association (Canada))
2011 - 2013
Certificant Review Committee, GPPA
2013 - 2021 (present)
Journal Committee, GPPA
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 - 2020
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.)