Pat Mirenda, PhD, RN
Professor
autism spectrum disorder; positive behaviour support; applied behaviour analysis; augmentative and alternative communication
Jehannine Austin, PhD CGC
Professor
psychiatric disorders; genetics; genetic testing; genetic counseling; depression; bipolar; schizophrenia; mental illness; stigma; empowerment
Joanna Cheek
Clinical Instructor
Mindfulness, psychotherapy, psychosocial treatments, bipolar disorder
Dr. Catriona Hippman, PhD, CGC
Postdoctoral Fellow
Genetic counselling, genetic counseling, psychiatry, mental illness, postpartum depression, reproductive mental health, perinatal mental health, prenatal genetic screening, Down syndrome, disability, pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine, antidepressants, antidepressant use in pregnancy, decision making in pregnancy,
Dr. Matthew Chow, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Instructor
President, Doctors of BC
Mental Health, Children and Youth, Health Policy, Physicians, Physician Leadership,
Liane Gabora, PhD
Professor
creativity, computational creativity, cultural evolution, computer models of cultural evolution, concepts, agent-based models, physical light as metaphor for psychological constructs
Darko Odic, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cognitive development, language acquisition, mathematics, perception of time and space, psychophysics, visual cognition, preschoolers, confidence, statistics
Amori Mikami, PhD
Associate Professor
Peer relationships, friendships, peer rejection, bullying, social skills training, social networking, Facebook, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, children, adolescents
Susan Birch, PhD Yale
Associate Professor
Social perspective taking, social learning, social cognition, imitation, nonverbal behavior, confidence, communication, decision-making, impression formation, child development, the study of children and adults’ social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples’ mental states–their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person’s perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as ‘the curse of knowledge bias’ (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one’s current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)
Dr. Dzung Vo, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Head, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine
Adolescent Medicine, Adolescent Health, Resilience, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Eating Disorders, Substance Use Disorders,
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Ashley Miller
Clinical Assistant Professor
Child and adolescent mental health, mood and anxiety disorders, family therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy for depression, mindful parenting, parenting, relationships, parental mental health, social determinants of health, school-based mental health, psychotherapy, emotion-focused therapies, physician wellness
Kerry Jang, PhD
Professor
Urban health, drug policy with regards to marijuana/cannabis, overdoses
Shernaz Bamji, PhD
Professor
Synapse biology, neuroscience, neurodevelopmental biology, cellular and molecular approaches
Naznin Virji-Babul, PT, PhD
Assistant Professor
Concussion, traumatic brain injury, adolescent brain development, infant brain development, perception-action development, perception-emotion development
Anthony Bailey, MBBS, FRCPC
Professor
Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), genetics, neurobiology, brain imaging, mental health
Dr. Lauren Emberson, PhD
Assistant Professor
developmental cognitive neuroscience, learning abilities, memory, perception (audition and vision),
Dr. Jill Zwicker, PhD, OT
Associate Professor
developmental coordination disorder, motor skills disorder, neurodevelopment, rehabilitation, brain imaging, pediatric, prematurity, brain development,
Ingrid Jarvis
PhD candidate
urban natural environments, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being,