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 Pierre Blier, MD, PhD
Endowed Chair and Director, Mood Disorders Research
University of Ottawa
Canada Research Chair in Psychopharmacology
Ottawa, Ontario
Pierre Blier graduated from the University of Montreal medical school where he received his master's and medical degrees, as well as his PhD in neuroscience.
Dr Blier is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and the director of the Mood Disorders Research Unit at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. He also holds positions as: Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry at McGill University in Montréal; and Courtesy Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
He has previously held academic positions as assistant professor, associate professor, and professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University from 1988 until 2000. He then relocated at the University of Florida at the Brain Institute as a full professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Neuroscience. He returned to Canada in 2004.
Professor Blier has authored and co-authored more than 380 scientific abstracts and 265 scientific publications. He has received numerous research grants from Fond de la recherché en Santé du Québec and the Medical Research Council of Canada/CIHR, as well as honorific awards from the American and Canadian Colleges of Neuropsychopharmacology. He received the Max Hamilton Memorial Prize in 1998 for outstanding contributions in psychopharmacology from the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology. His research has been supported by numerous peer-reviewed research grants, including the National Institute of Mental Health, and he is now the recipient of the Endowed Chair in Mood Disorders Research from the University of Ottawa and the Canada Research Chair in Psychopharmacology from the Canadian government.
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February 04, 2012
