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31st Annual CCNP Conference
June 6-9, 2008, Toronto, Ontario
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For more details, please visit www.ccnp.ca.
Conference Objectives:
| 1. | Build basic science and clinical connections among Canadian researchers |
| 2. | Highlight advances in the neurodevelopment of psychiatric illness |
| 3. | Support the next generation of clinical and basic neuropsychopharmacologists |
Events:
Friday, June 6: Opening Reception
Top of the TD Waterhouse Tower at Stratus Restaurant
Saturday, June 7: Trainee Breakfast Workshop:
Remi Quirion, PhD (Scientific Director, CIHR, INMHA, McGill University) – CIHR Applications: Guidelines for Success
Sunday, June 8: Cocktail Reception and Banquet
Hilton Hotel
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Symposia and Lectures:
Presidential Symposium: Neurodevelopment and Behaviour
Co-Chairs: Drs. Meir Steiner (CCNP President, Brain-Body Insitute, St. Joseph's Healthcare, McMaster University) and Harold Robertson (CCNP President-Elect, Dalhousie University)
Speakers:
Michael Meaney, PhD (Professor of Medicine, McGill University)
Stephen Matthews, PhD
(Professor of Physiology, University of Toronto)
Stephen Suomi, PhD (NICHD - Bethesda, Maryland, USA)
Dirk Hellhammer, PhD (Chair, Psychobiological Research, University of Trier, Germany)
The AstraZeneca Lunch Symposium: Novel approaches: Towards Understanding the Neurobiology of Mental Illness
Chair:Glenda MacQueen, MD, PhD (McMaster University)
Speakers:
Jane Foster, PhD (McMaster University)
John Armstrong, PhD (University of Guelph)
Catharine Winstanley, PhD (University of British Columbia)
The Wyeth Roundtable Lunch Symposium: The Complex Depressed Patient: From Neurobiology to Effective Treatment
Chair: Claudio Soares, MD, PhD (Brain-Body Insitute, St. Joseph's Healthcare, McMaster University)
Speakers:
Dr. Pierre Blier, MD, PhD (University of Ottawa)
Valerie Taylor, MD (McMaster University)
Arya M. Sharma, MD, PhD (Univ of Alberta)
The Servier Distinguished Lecture:
Russell Foster, PhD (Chair of Circadian Neuroscience, Oxford University, UK)
Additional Symposia:
| • | Maternal Adversity Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment (MAVAN): Preliminary Findings | |
| ○ | Robert Levitan, MD (University of Toronto) | |
| • | Dopamine and Clinical Depression: New Findings | |
| ○ | Marco Leyton, PhD (McGill) | |
| • | Fear and Anxiety Disorders: From Molecules to the Clinic | |
| ○ | Sheena Josselyn, PhD (University of Toronto) | |
