Recent Presentations (selected)

2024

Conducting a national needs assessment to develop the Friends/Family of Individuals at Risk of Suicide Training (FIRST) Program (Oral)

Presented virtually at the 3rd Annual Suicide Research Symposium, cohosted by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Conducting a national needs assessment to develop the Friends/Family of Individuals at Risk of Suicide Training (FIRST) Program (Poster)

Presented at the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) Annual Meeting.

2023

Conducting a national needs assessment to develop the Friends/Family of Individuals at Risk of Suicide Training (FIRST) Program (Poster)

Presented at the University of Toronto’s 2023 Department of Psychiatry Research Day.

Clinical, behavioural, and neural correlates of anhedonia and reward function in Major Depressive Disorder and mild traumatic brain injury (Poster)

Presented virtually at the Society for Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting; e-poster available online.

2020

Exploring the effect of concussion history on reward processing and anhedonia in depression (Poster)

Accepted for presentation at the Society for Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting. In-person meeting cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic: e-poster available online.

Assessing anhedonia and reward processing in depression before and after treatment with desvenlafaxine (Poster)

Accepted for presentation at the Society for Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting. In-person meeting cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic: e-poster available online.

Mental Health Matters: Talking about Depression and Suicide (Oral)

Public talk to high school students, presented as part of the Keenan Popular Science Lecture Series, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital.

2019

Interaction between Psychache, Physical Pain, Reward Responsivity, Anhedonia, and Suicidality in Depression (Poster)

Presented at the IASR/AFSP International Summit on Suicide Research.

Resting-state functional connectivity in depression and mild traumatic brain injury (Poster)

Presented at the CIHR National Research Poster Presentation, Canada Student Health Research Forum.

Resting-state functional connectivity in depression and mild traumatic brain injury (Poster)

Presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting.

Anhedonia and reward-related deficits in traumatic brain injury: Implications for development of depression post-injury (Poster)

Presented at the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) World Congress.

2018

Exploring the Overlap between Depression and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Focus on Neuroimaging and Reward Processing (Oral)

Presented at the Research Training Centre Seminar Series, St. Michael’s Hospital.

2017

Demographic and clinical correlates of single versus repeated suicide attempts in mood disorders (Poster)

Presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CCNP).

2016

Identifying predictors of risk for depression and suicidality following mild traumatic brain injury (Oral)

Presented at the Research Training Centre Seminar Series, St. Michael’s Hospital.

Correlation between anhedonia and suicidal ideation in Major Depressive Disorder (Poster)

Presented at the Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression (CAN-BIND) Annual Meeting.