Scientific Advisory Board
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Dr. Stanley Kutcher, MD, FRCPC, FCAHSDr. Kutcher is an internationally-renowned expert in the area of adolescent mental health and a national and international leader in mental health research, advocacy, training, policy, and health services innovation. Dr. Kutcher uses his considerable expertise to advance the work of the Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, building awareness and knowledge about mental health in young people through the development of program that addresses adolescent mental health promotion, education and research, locally, nationally and internationally. Dr. Kutcher most recently served as Associate Dean of International Medical Development & Research with Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine. At Dalhousie, he has been chair of the Department of Psychiatry and has led the development of the Life Sciences Development Association, the Brain Repair Centre, and the International Health Office. He is also the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Mental Health at Dalhousie. Dr. Kutcher was a founding member of the Canadian Association for Mood and Anxiety Treatment, the Advisory Board for the Institute of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addictions (Canadian Institutes of Health Research), the Science Advisory Committee of NeuroScience Canada, and the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research. He has served as a board member for the Canadian Society for International Health; and the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation and is currently a member of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Child and Youth Advisory Panel. Internationally he has worked with various governments, international organizations (such as the WHO and PAHO) and through Canadian government agencies such as Health Canada and CIDA to address a variety of mental health issues. His current interests include translating mental health research into clinical care, patient and parent empowerment, health systems/health policy and optimization of mental health care/mental health clinical research through the training of community based health human resources in primary care. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and also author/co-author of a number of medical textbooks, has edited the. Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology News and has been a consultant to various organizations on issues pertaining to mental health treatments and program reviews in children, adolescents and adults alike. |
