May 6, 2025 agenda

All sessions will be held at New Residence Hall.

Learn more about the speakers here.

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7:45 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.:
Registration

8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.:
Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.:
Keynote

• Damien Fair, University of Minnesota.
  Liftoff: Neuropsychiatry with functional MRI comes of age

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.:
Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.:
Panel

Topic: Digital tools and their application/translation into the health system
Moderator: Martin Lepage (McGill University)
Panelists: Shalini Lal (Université de Montréal), Synthia Guimond (The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, IMHR, Ottawa) and Amal Abdel-Baki (Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, CHUM).

11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.:
Lunch / Poster Session

12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.:
Panel

Topic: Early biomarkers for development and monitoring of effective disease-modifying therapies
Panelists: Marco Prado (Western University) and Mallar Chakravarty (McGill University)

1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.:
Panel

Topic: Initiative for Translational Neuroscience
Moderator: Lisa Saksida (Western University)
Panelists: Boris Bernhardt (McGill University), Jonathan Lau (Western University), Christopher Pack (McGill University), Lyle Muller (Western University) and Thomas Durcan (McGill University).

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.:
Coffee Break

3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.:
Panel

Topic: Innovation to impact: Clinical and commercial potential in research 
Moderator: Benoit Boulet (McGill University)
Panelists: Gail Myhr, Yannis Trakadis, Benoit Gentil and Stefanie Blain-Moraes (all McGill University)

4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.:
Day One – Closing Remarks

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4:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.:
Reception / Poster Session