Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC
James McGill Professor & Director, Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal
Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC is James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University. He is Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry, and directs the McGill Global Mental Health Program and the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit at the Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal where he conducts research on mental health services for immigrants and refugees, mental health promotion for Indigenous Peoples, and the anthropology and philosophy of psychiatry.
His past research includes studies on the development and evaluation of a cultural consultation service in mental health, pathways and barriers to mental health care for immigrants, somatization in primary care, Inuit concepts of mental health and illness, risk and protective factors for suicide, Indigenous concepts of resilience, and culturally based mental health promotion for First Nations youth. He held a CIHR Senior Investigator Award for a research program entitled “The integration of culture in psychiatric theory and practice,” which included studies on the relevance of cultural formulation in psychiatric consultation and a cross-national comparative study of models of mental health care for multicultural societies.
Dr Kirmayer founded and directs the annual Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry at McGill. He is also founder and director of the Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research. He co-edited the volumes, Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (University of British Columbia Press, 2008); Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care, (Springer, 2014) and , Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health (Cambridge, 2015).
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May 2018Registration Opens. Early bird fee $200.00; Students $100.
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Oct. 1, 2018Registration fee increases to $225.00; registrations become non-refundable.
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November 16, 2018Conference
Agenda
Registration / Breakfast
Introductions – Dr. Jan Banasch
Lecture 1: Re-Visioning Psychiatry
Integrating Culture & Context in theory/practice
Coffee Break
Lecture 2: Cultural Safety & Structural Competence
Lunch
Lecture 3: Cultural Based Mental Health Promotion for Indigenous Youth
Question & Answer "Meet the Professor"
Contact & Registration
1100 Youville Drive West Northwest
Edmonton, AB T6L 5X8
For further information, contact:
Sharon Reimer at 780-735-7145 or
email [email protected]
Please note: No refunds after October 1, 2018.