�The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is majestic to announce a landmark investment of $15 zillion by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) into research that will motivate the understanding, intervention, treatment and prevention of mental illness and addiction to the side by side level of excellence.
This financial backing from the Large-Scale Institutional Endeavours part of CFI's Research Hospital Fund volition allow CAMH to leveraging our scientific strengths, and transform lives with a new integrated, multi-disciplinary and innovative research environment.
"This alone support and endorsement is the engine that will drive real change for people impacted by mental illness and addiction," aforesaid CAMH Vice President of Research Dr. Bruce Pollock. "The modern environment that we canful now build as piece of our bold renovation will greatly increase the opportunities for researchers, clients, and partners to work together to generate well timed, relevant research that can seamlessly translate into clinical practice that provides optimum care."
CFI's contribution, the largest individual cary Grant in CAMH's history, kicks off a $38 million project that will enable CAMH to focus on transforming lives across 6 research themes: Schizophrenia, Mood Disorders, Addictions, Community Health & Knowledge Exchange, Neuroimaging, Pharmacogentics and Neuroscience. With the additional financial support coming from donors through the CAMH Foundation, this integrated and pioneering project will address key issues such as;
* Optimizing treatment across mental sickness and substance use disorders, including the development of individualized treatment based on molecular genetic science
* Translating discoveries into improved clinical practice, bar and intervention strategies
* Reaching out to underserved and understudied communities such as First Nations, remote populations, the workplace, women, the aged, and children.
"As we celebrate CAMH's tenth anniversary and officially open the number one phase of our redeveloping Queen Street site, we're also witnessing a turning point in the history of mental illness and addiction inquiry, thanks to the generosity, support and faith of CFI," aforesaid CAMH President and CEO Dr. Paul Garfinkel. "Due to mark, psychiatry and addiction intervention are behind many other areas of medicine. This support provides many of the tools we need to dramatically improve node, community and workplace wellness, reduce the burden of these diseases and their impact on the health care system."
"CAMH's proposal brings together a group of outstanding researchers to advance a first, innovative research agenda," according to CFI's International Assessment Committee. "The proposed enquiry will be an of import factor in enhancing knowledge and world awareness of mental health and addictions."
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and habituation teaching hospital, as well as one of the world's leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental wellness. CAMH combines clinical care, research, educational activity, policy maturation and health promotion to transform the lives of people unnatural by mental health and addiction issues.
CAMH is amply affiliated with the University of Toronto, and is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre.
Source: Michael Torres
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
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