Our Team

Leadership

DR SIGNE BRAY

Dr. Signe Bray uses functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study learning and cognition in development. She is interested in how brain networks develop, both in terms of structure and function, and how changes in the brain relate to the maturation of cognitive and learning abilities. She also uses MRI to characterize functional and structural differences in the brain in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. 

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DR PATRICIA CONROD

Dr. Patricia Conrod is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry at Universite de Montreal. Her research team is based at the CHU Sainte-Justine Mother and Child Hospital Centre in Montreal. Her research focuses on cognitive, personality and biological risk factors for the development and maintenance of drug abuse and the factors that mediate the co-occurrence of addictive behaviours with other mental disorders. Her research findings have led to the development of new approaches to substance abuse treatment and prevention that target personality risk factors and the underlying motivational determinants of drug use in subtypes of substance misusers.

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DR CATHERINE LEBEL

Dr. Catherine Lebel's research uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study brain development in children and adolescents. Using a variety of MRI techniques, Lebel studies how brain structure and function change with age, or in response to treatments and interventions. Dr. Lebel is specifically interested in how brain maturation and brain plasticity are related to cognition and behaviour, and how these relationships may be different in children with developmental disorders. The aim of her research is to better understand brain changes, with the ultimate goal of providing earlier identification and more effective treatments for children with developmental disorders.

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DR ANNE WHEELER

Dr. Anne Wheeler is a Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in the Neuroscience and Mental Health Program and an Associate Professor in the Physiology Department at the University of Toronto. Dr. Wheeler’s translational research program applies advanced neuroimaging methods to characterize brain connectivity and how changes in connectivity driven by injury, psychopathology, development, and genetics affect behaviour and cognition.

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Research Team

Scientists

  • Paul Arnold, MD, PhD

    Professor
    University of Calgary

  • Miriam Beauchamp, PhD

    Professor
    Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine

  • Lune Bellec, PhD

    Professor
    Université de Montréal

  • Ashley Harris, PhD

    Associate Professor
    University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital

  • Sebestian Jacquemont, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine

  • Daniel Kopala-Sibley, PhD

    Associate Professor
    University of Calgary

  • Chathura Kumaragamage, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital

  • Lara Leijser, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor
    University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital

  • Gregory Lodygensky, MD

    Clinical Associate Professor
    Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine

  • Jamie Near, PhD

    Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Hospital

  • Tomas Paus, MD, PhD

    Professor
    Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine

  • Bruce Pike, PhD

    Professor
    University of Calgary

  • Christine Tardif, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    McGill University

  • Jacob Vorstman, MD, PhD

    Professor
    University of Toronto, SickKids

  • Keith Yeates, PhD

    Professor
    University of Calgary

Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Emile Kaladie, PhD

    University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Hospital

  • Samantha Lynch, PhD

    Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine

  • Mervynderjeet Singh, PhD

    University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital

Bioinformaticians

  • Milton Camacho Camacho, MSc

    University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital

  • Shireen Parimoo, PhD

    University of Toronto, SickKids

  • Basile Pinsard, PhD

    Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine

  • Sean Spinney, MSc

    Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine

Executive Committee

  • Signe Bray, PhD

    Professor
    University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital

  • Patricia Conrod, PhD

    Professor
    Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine

  • Darren Kadis, PhD

    Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, SickKids

  • Catherine Lebel, PhD

    Professor
    University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital

  • Sarah Lippé, PhD

    Professor
    Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine

  • Anne Wheeler, PhD

    Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, SickKids