Making a Difference

Bobana Samardžija, University of RijekaMy interest in mental health research spawned from my surroundings - many of my friends and family are living with various mental illnesses, so I became very sensible to these issues from a young age. Every day we are making...

Luciana Diaz-Cutraro, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de DéuResearch on schizophrenia: an adventure not to be missed. After finishing my residency in clinical psychology and training in psychological treatments for severe mental disorders, I decided to go behind the scenes of...

Vincent Paquin, McGill UniversityPeople have diverse experiences of psychosis. As a physician training in psychiatry, I am taught to consider multiple factors to tailor my clinical approach and the choice of treatment: the personal history and values of patients,...

Sandra Bucci, Cara Richardson, & Stephanie Allan (iCHARTS)A recent review by Torous and colleagues (2021) highlighted that detailed adverse events reporting is rare within the area of digital mental health, and as such, it is currently difficult to draw inferences...

Lynn DeLisi, Cambridge Health AlliancePsychiatry was the field of Medicine I chose after graduating medical school and performing field work in rural Northern New Mexico as a general practitioner for 3 years. Most of my patients would come into the clinic because of...

Sunny Tang, Feinstein for Medical ResearchAs a psychiatrist and scientist, I see the devastating toll taken by psychotic illnesses and the almost overwhelming gap between available and needed remedies. In my view, we can only achieve major leaps forward as a field by...

Sachin Nagendrappa, St. John's Medical College HospitalMy interest in psychiatry started in medical school. I was fortunate to get a teacher Dr. Sanjay, a Psychiatrist who sparked my interest in the field of psychosis. As Dr. Sanjay knew my interest in psychiatry, he...

Matcheri Keshavan, Harvard University I have always been interested in the nature of the self- questions such as who we are, and how an optimum knowledge of the self is critical for defining our health and happiness.  As I began learning to learn about the brain in...

Robin Emsley, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch UniversityI have had the privilege of spending the major part of my professional career involved in researching the illness called schizophrenia. After qualifying as I psychiatrist and opting for an...