May 21, 2012

J.M. Cleghorn Award for Excellence and Leadership in Clinical Research

First awarded in 2000

2011
Dr. Anne Basset, is a national and international expert in schizophrenia genetics research. She is best known for her pioneering studies of an under-recognized subtype of schizophrenia known as 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. Dr. Basset has extended her research in schizophrenia to the newfound phenomenon of copy number variation, or CNV, and heads up the world’s largest study of CNVs in a systematically assessed sample with schizophrenia.

2010
Dr. Stanley Kutcher is reknown both nationally and internationally for his contributions to child and adolescent mental health research. His accomplishments include the development and assessment of a novel psychotherapeutic intervention program for primary care physicians, the development of the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale and the establishment of the first Canadian clinical-research clinics for adolescents with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and psychotic disorder.

2009
Dr. Allan Kaplan has contributed significantly both nationally and internationally to research in eating disorders with a particular focus on the psychobiology and treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. In 2002 he was appointed the first Chairholder of the Loretta Anne Rogers Chair in Eating Disorder, the world’s first Chair in eating disorders. His work has received substantial grants from, among others, the Ontario Mental Health Foundation, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the National Institute of Mental Health.

2008
Dr. Michel Maziade is a child psychiatrist and a pioneer in psychiatric genetics with a vision for interdisciplinary collaboration and research. He was one of the first researchers in the world to explore schizophrenia and bipolar disorder conjointly creating a unique and priceless genetic database around which he built the internationally reknown Laval-Robert Giffard University Research Centre. Dr. Maziade has been the Centre’s scientific director
since its inception in 1987.

2007
Dr. Paul Grof was recognized for his research contributions in the field of bipolar disorder and recurrent depression. Dr. Grof's major contribution has been the recognition of the heterogeneity of bipolar disorders using the responder variable. His 30-year study of consenting patients and their family members is also an invaluable contribution to clinical research.

2006
Dr. Harvey Chochinov was recognized for his research which has expanded the fields of psychiatry and palliative medicine, bringing them closer together in the service of improving end-of-life care. His work has helped define the competencies and standards of care for practitioners around the world who attend to the dying and their loved ones.

2005
Dr. Chawki Benkelfat contributed to the understanding of mental disorders, particularly mood disorders and substance use, using brain imaging to determine the neurobiological mechanisms behind these symptoms.

2004
Dr. Sidney Kennedy was recognized for his lasting contributions to psychiatry's understanding of mood and eating disorders and their treatments, his work in translating research into clinical practice and his championship of evidence-based psychiatry.

2003
Dr. Ashok Malla was recognized for his overall contributions to schizophrenia and psychosis research and for establishing the early intervention program for psychosis at the London Health Sciences Centre.

2002
Dr. Robert Zipursky was recognized for his remarkable productivity, with work on structural brain abnormalities in psychiatric illness, on mechanisms of antipsychotic medications and schizophrenia, on the study of first-episode schizophrenia, on health services research and on ethical issues in schizophrenia research.

2001
Dr. Peter Williamson was recognized for his pioneering work in neuroimaging of schizophrenia, the excellence of his research, and for being an outstanding educator in neuropsychiatry research development.

2000
Dr. Dan Offord

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