Quebec Child Mental Health Research Day
Title: New Insights in Etiology & Treatment of Suicidality in Children & Adolescents
Hybrid 鈥� In person (RI Auditorium ES1-1129) and by TEAMS
Presentations will be in English while questions and discussions will be in French and English.
This year is a free conference. Please make your registration by using
INVITED SPEAKERS : Dr. Marie-Claude Geoffroy, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at 海角社区 and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, and a child and adolescent psychologist. Her research focuses on suicide in children, adolescents, and young adults, with a strong interest in school-based prevention. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Youth Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion. She was elected a College Member of the Royal Society of Canada in 2023, and received the President鈥檚 Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at 海角社区 in 2022. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates life-course epidemiology, systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, qualitative interviews, and close partnerships with youth and community and institutional partners. She has authored over 150 publications in leading journals, including The Lancet Psychiatry. She is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec. She is Director of the Papageno Research Team, which brings together over 10 researchers across Quebec to advance knowledge in youth suicide prevention.
Dr. Johanne Renaud, MD, MSc, FRCPC is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at 海角社区. She completed her child and adolescent psychiatry training both at Universit茅 de Montr茅al and 海角社区. She finished her post-doctoral studies at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center on childhood anxiety and mood disorders. She also earned a Master鈥檚 Degree in Biomedical Sciences from Universit茅 de Montr茅al on ADHD and neuropsychology. She is a researcher with the 海角社区 Group for Suicide Studies. Notable among many publications is her study on Canadian psychological autopsy study in children and adolescents. She has also trained numerous medical and other mental health professional students, and won many prizes. Dr. Renaud has been funded by CHIR, FRQS, and Manulife. She has also received community recognition from school and DYP networks. She currently works full-time with depressive and suicidal children, adolescents, and adults at the Douglas Institute, and at the CLSC in Verdun as 鈥減sychiatre r茅pondant鈥� in youth mental health.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Update clinician鈥檚 and researchers on current research findings from a number of studies of etiology and treatment of suicidality in children and adolescents.
2. Implications of these research findings for clinical practice for guiding diagnosis and treatment of suicidality in children and adolescents.
3. Current challenges in implementing clinically sound approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of suicidal children and adolescents in current clinical settings.
