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.
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.
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.
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.
DR DARREN KADIS
Dr. Darren S. Kadis is a Scientist in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Director of the Human Neurophysiology Core, and Scientific Director of MEG, at SickKids. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. Dr. Kadis uses non-invasive neuroimaging to study how the brain supports language acquisition early in life, how the architecture and dynamics of the language network change in typical development, and how the network is impacted by injury, disease, and intervention. His team works most frequently with MRI and MEG, to study brain structure and function, respectively.
DR SARAH LIPPÉ
Dr. Sarah Lippé is a neuropsychologist, Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Montreal and FRQ-S Senior Scientist at Sainte-Justine Hospital. As Director of the multidisciplinary Neuroscience of Early Development Lab (NED) she studies the cerebral mechanisms involved in learning processes in infants and children. Her research focuses on neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental disorders. She holds the Canadian Research Chair in Pediatric Neurodiversity.
DR LUNE BELLEC
Dr. Lune Bellec is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal and Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Brain Simulation and Exploration (SIMEXP) at the Montreal Geriatrics Institute (CRIUGM). She is an affiliated member of Mila (Quebec AI Research Institute) and supervises multidisciplinary trainees working at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and large-scale data infrastructure. She leads the Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling (CNeuroMod), an intensive individual-level neuroimaging program (fMRI, MEG) designed to enable reproducible, brain-aligned AI models. Within CPIP, she plays a central role in the design, deployment, and governance of open, federated data-management workflows, with a focus on standardisation, sustainability, and responsible data sharing across sites
Research Team
Scientists
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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
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Emile Kaladie, PhD
University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Hospital
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Samantha Lynch, PhD
Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine
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Mervynderjeet Singh, PhD
University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Bioinformaticians
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Milton Camacho Camacho, MSc
University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital
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Shireen Parimoo, PhD
University of Toronto, SickKids
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Basile Pinsard, PhD
Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine
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Sean Spinney, MSc
Université de Montréal, CHU-Ste Justine