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Department of Psychiatry

University Of Alberta
4-142A Katz Group Centre for Research
11315 - 87 Ave NW
Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2H5
Tel: (780) 492-2487

Career Opportunities

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Central Administration

Department Chair

Dr. David Ross

daross2@ualberta.ca

Academic Affairs

Dr. Alberto Choy, Associate Chair

alberto.choy@albertahealthservices.ca

EDI

Dr. Hannah Pazderka, Director

hannah@ualberta.ca

Education

Dr. Lindy VanRiper, Director

vanriper@ualberta.ca

Research

Dr. Yifeng Wei, Director

yifeng.wei@ualberta.ca

Academic Department

Stephanie Russell, Manager

stephanie.russell@ualberta.ca

Divisions

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Alice Leung, Director

daross2@ualberta.ca

780-407-1611

Division of Forensic Psychiatry

Dr. Alberto Choy, Director

alberto.choy@albertahealthservices.ca

Division of Clinical Psychology

Dr. Greg Schoepp, Acting Director

greg.schoepp@albertahealthservices.ca

780-407-6895

Education

Undergraduate Medical Education (Preclinical)

Dr. Ron Oswald, Director

roswald@ualberta.ca

780-342-7944

Undergraduate Medical Education (Clinical)

Dr. Alberto Choy, Director

alberto.choy@albertahealthservices.ca

Graduate Program

Dr. Andy Holt, Director

aholt@ualberta.ca

Resident Program

Dr. Yanbo Zhang, Director

yanbo9@ualberta.ca

780-407-6938

Dr. Ron Oswald, Associate Directors

aholt@ualberta.ca

Dr. Andy Holt, Acting Director

aholt@ualberta.ca

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Subspecialty Program

Dr. Lindy VanRiper, Director

capspd@ualberta.ca

Geriatric Psychiatry Subspecialty Program

Dr. Stephanie Magnan, Director

geripsyc@ualberta.ca

Forensic Psychiatry Subspecialty Program

Dr. Lenka Zedkova, Director

lenka.zedkova@albertahealthservices.ca

780-342-5555

Resident Research

Dr. Maryana Kravtsenyuk, Director

maryana@ualberta.ca

Administrative Support Staff

Department Coordinator

Haley Larocque

psych.deptco@ualberta.ca

AMHSP Coordinator & Communications

Meaghan Lien

alberto.choy@albertahealthservices.ca

psycomm@ualberta.ca

Department Assistant

Marge Krowchynski

psycadm@ualberta.ca

Medical Education Team Lead

Kay Kovithavongs

kkovitha@ualberta.ca

Medical Education Program

General Psychiatry

Dana Black and Sreya Jacob, Administrators

psycpgme@ualberta.ca

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Geriatric Psychiatry

Ariane Bakhtiar, Administrator

capadmin@ualberta.ca

geripsyc@ualberta.ca

AFC Addiction Medicine & Forensic Psychiatry

Johanne Weber, Administrator

psychafc@ualberta.ca

forpsych@ualberta.ca

UME Program

Chelsey Konowalyk, Administrator

umepsych@ualberta.ca

Graduate Program & Research

Katherine Claypool, Administrator

psychiat@ualberta.ca

Faculty

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Academic Faculty

Listing of academic faculty, their contact information, research keywords, and availability for graduate supervision.

Name

Contact

Research Keywords

Graduate supervision?

Professor

780-492-4018

kaitchis@ualberta.ca

Psychosis, pharmacogenetics, epigenetics and metabolomics.

Yes

Professor Emeritus

780-905-5093

glen.baker@ualberta.ca

Mechanisms of action and metabolism of antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs.

No

Professor Emeritus

780-492-6420

lorraine.breault@ualberta.ca

-

No

Professor

Director, Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine 

780-492-0980

lorraine.breault@ualberta.ca

Medical/health humanities, medical education research, arts and health

Yes

Associate Professor

bcao2@ualberta.ca

Computational psychiatry, machine learning, mental disorders, precision medicine in mental health, brain imaging, brain maturation and aging Yes

Assistant Professor

awchan@ualberta.ca

Autism, mesoscale imaging, optogenetics Yes

Faculty Service Officer

achoy@ualberta.ca

Forensic psychiatry, violence risk assessment & management, sexual offenders, paraphillas, faculty affairs

No

Professor

dursun@ualberta.ca

Psychosis, schizophrenia, clinical psychopharmacology

Yes

Professor

780-492-4104

efujiwara@ualberta.ca

Cognition, emotion, neuropsychology, HIV

Yes

Professor

780-667-2599

andy.greenshaw@ualberta.ca

Biological Psychiatry

 Yes

Associate Professor

aholt@ualberta.ca

Molecular pharmacology and kinetic analyses of amine oxidases and other enzymes Yes

Professor

780-492-9357

skar@ualberta.ca

Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease

Yes

Professor

780-407-6578

jean-michel.lemelledo@ualberta.ca

Hormonal influences on mood and anxiety disorders

Yes

Professor

Associate Dean, FoMD, Faculty Affairs Office 

780-718-9269

xinmin@ualberta.ca

Preclinical models of mental disorders, computational psychiatry

Yes

Professor

780-248-1120

nikolai.malykhin@ualberta.ca

Mood disorders, stress, healthy neurocognitive aging, neuroimaging Yes

Professor

780-407-6564

ndm@ualberta.ca

-

No

Professor

780-407-6576

peter.silverstone@ualberta.ca

Clinical translational research; psychiatry outcomes research

No

Professor

Assistant Dean, FoMD, Undergrad Medical Education

780-407-8725

lstovel@ualberta.ca

Psychotherapy, group therapy, supervision, medical education

No

Professor

Provost & Vice-President Academic - Admin

780-492-6591

kgtodd@ualberta.ca

Cellular mechanisms in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders

Yes



Associate Professor

yifeng.wei@ualberta.ca

Mental health literacy, child and youth mental health, school mental health, mental health promotion and prevention, school-based suicide prevention, knowledge translation and implementation science

Yes

Professor

Associate Vice-President (Research Development and Services)

780-492-8658

iwinship@ualberta.ca

Stroke, schizophrenia, neuroimaging

Yes

Professor

yanbo.zhang@ualberta.ca

Interventional psychiatry, novel treatments

Yes