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The Fifth Dr Sarada Menon Oration

22nd August 2024,Thursday

06.30 pm

Ashok Malla is currently Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at McGill University (since Nov 2020). As a tenured professor with an adjunct appointment in Epidemiology and Biostatistics he held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Early Psychosis and Early Intervention in Youth Mental Health (2003-2020). He is a recipient of an honorary doctorate from l’Université de Montréal, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and, a past editor of Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. He has been an international leader in Early Intervention in Psychosis since the mid 1990s and Youth Mental Health since 2013. His research has focused on multidimensional outcomes in psychosis, early intervention models of service delivery in Canada and global mental health. Recently (2014-2020) he led a $25M, CIHR-SPOR funded pan-Canadian research project on transformation of youth mental health services (ACCESS OPEN MINDS). He has published around 500 peer-reviewed articles, supervised many graduate and post-doctoral trainees and been a strong advocate of access to evidence informed high quality care for the seriously mentally ill. Currently, he is a scientific advisor for research projects in FEP and EI in Ethiopia and France. Originally from Kashmir, he lives in Montréal, Canada.

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