Drug Free Kids Canada’s Advisory Council

DFK Canada has access to their combined expertise to ensure that our website content is kept up to date with the latest scientific and evidence based information available.

For information on how to contact any one of our Advisory Council Members, please contact us at: info@drugfreekidscanada.org.

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  Glenn Barnes, MHA

  Expertise: Youth Addiction Treatment
  Health Administrator, Consultant
  Former CEO – Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre, Ottawa

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  Dr. Sean Barrett, PhD

  Expertise: Substance Abuse and Addiction
  Assoc. Professor and Director of Clinical Training,
  Dept of Psychology/Neuroscience, Dalhousie University

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  Dr. Richard Bélanger, MD FRCPC

  Expertise: Adolescent and young adult health

  Pediatrician specializing in Adolescence, Clinical Researcher – Centre mère-enfant Soleil CHU Québec – Université Laval

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  Rose-Marie Charest

  Expertise: Clinical Psychologist
  Clinical Psychologist with a private practice, Past President of Quebec Order of Psychologists

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  Dr. Peter Choate, PhD, RSW

  Expertise: Child Protection and Addiction
  Clinical Social Worker and Ass’t Professor of Social Work, Mount Royal University

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  Dr. Patricia Conrod, PhD

  Expertise: Youth Addiction Prevention
  (CoVenture – a school drug prevention and health program)
  Psychologist and Professor of Psychology, Université de Montreal

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  Dr. Victoria Creighton, Psy.D

  Expertise: Treatment of drug and alcohol abuse and addiction in youth
  Clinical Director, Pine River Institute, Ontario

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  Dr. Claude Cyr, MD

  Expertise: Pain Management and Mental Health

  Family Practitioner and founder of Doctors for Responsible Access

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  Kathryn Djordjevic, RPh, BScPhm

  Expertise : Pharmacist
  Independent Consultant for clinical practice, education, and health tech startups

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  Pierre-André Dubé, B. Pharm., M. Sc., C. Clin. Tox.

  Expertise: Pharmacist-toxicologist
  Chief Scientific Advisor in Clinical Toxicology, Quebec National Institute of Public Health

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  Deputy Chief Tim Farquharson

  Expertise: Law Enforcement
  Deputy Chief of Police, Peterborough Police Service, Drug Advisory Committee, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP), Substance Advisory Committee, Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, (OACP)

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  Dr. Tony P. George M.D., FRCPC

  Expertise: Pharmacology of drugs of abuse, co-morbid substance abuse and serious mental illness.
  Chief of Addictions, CAMH
  Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

   

   

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  Dr. Abby Goldstein, PhD

  Expertise: Addictive Behaviours among adolescents
  Clinical Psychologist,
  Canada Research Chair in the Psychology of Emerging Adulthood,
  Associate Professor of Psychology, OISE, University of Toronto

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  David Hammond, PhD

  Expertise: Global Health, Drug Policy and Harm Reduction

  Professor, CIHR-PHAC Chair in Applied Public Health, University of Waterloo

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  Dr. Martin Laliberté, MD

  Expertise: Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology
  Medical Director of the Canadian Association of Poison Control Centres Ass’t Professor of Medicine, McGill University

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  Anne Elizabeth Lapointe

  Expertise: Addiction and Prevention

  Executive Director, Addiction Prevention Centre (APC) and Maison Jean Lapointe

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  Dr. Steven Laviolette

  Expertise: Neuroscientist
  Researchs Neurobiology of addiction, schizophrenia, autism and PTSD. Assoc. Professor University of Western Ontario

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  Dr. Chris Montoya, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.

  Expertise: Physiological Psychology, Cognitive Neuropsychology
  Psychologist with a private practice, Academic and Senior Lecturer at Thompson Rivers University

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  Dr. Marie-Eve Morin, MD, CMFC

  Expertise: General Practitioner, Addiction Treatment
  Founder and Medical Director of Clinique Caméléon

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  Dr. Louise Nadeau

  Expertise: Alcohol, substance and gambling addictions
  Psychologist, Professor of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Associate Researcher, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University

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  Christina Nona, HBsc

  Expertise: Addiction research,
  Neuropharmacology, Statistics
  PhD Candidate, Neuropharmacology, University of Toronto

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  Dr. Amy Porath-Waller, PhD

  Expertise: Substance Abuse Issues and Health effects of cannabis use, prescription drug abuse and drugged driving
  Director of Research and Policy, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA)

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  Dr. John Sader

  Expertise: Family medicine
  Family Practitioner specializing in substance use disorders and dependency.

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  Chief Constable Mike Serr

  Expertise: Law Enforcement
  Chief Constable, Abbotsford Police Department, Drug Abuse Committee Chair, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP)

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  Dr. Jacqueline Smith, RN, BN, PhD

  Expertise: Educator, Family and Addiction Counsellor

  Director of Mental Health & Wellness, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary

   

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  Dr. Maude St-Onge, MD, PhD, FRCPC

  Expertise: Emergency physician Clinical pharmacology and toxicology
  Director, Quebec Ministry of Health Poison and Drug Information Service

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  Dr. Philip Tibbo

  Expertise: Psychiatrist, Psychotic Disorders

  Professor, Researcher, Dalhousie University, Director of the Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program (NSEPP)

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  Dr. Michael Trew, MD, FRCPC

  Expertise: Addiction and Mental Health
  Medical Lead, Addiction and Mental Health Special Projects, Alberta Health

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  Dr. Christine Wekerle, PhD

  Expertise: Pediatric Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology
  Associate Professor Pediatrics at McMaster University
  International Society of Child and Adolescent Resilience

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  Dr. Mark Yarema, MD FRCPC

  Expertise: Emergency Physician and Medical Toxicologist
  Ass’t Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Calgary
  Medical Director of Alberta’s Poison and Drug Information Service (PADIS)