Physician
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health/University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Bernard Le Foll, MD PhD MCFP is a clinician-scientist specialized in drug addiction. He is the Medical Head of the Addiction Medicine Service and Medical Withdrawal Service at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is the Head of the Translational Addiction Research Laboratory within the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute of CAMH and Head of the Alcohol Research and Treatment Clinic within the Addiction Medicine Service of CAMH. He is a Professor at University of Toronto in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine, Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Institute of Medical Sciences and holds several graduate faculty appointments. He received specialized training in drug addiction and behavioral and cognitive therapy in France, has written addiction treatment guidelines and various reviews on neurobiology and treatment of drug addiction. Dr Le Foll has published more than 120 peer-reviews manuscripts, several book chapters and has been involved on the Editorial Boards of 19 scientific journals. He has been coordinator of several clinical trial studies. His research evaluates novel therapeutic approaches using a combination of preclinical, clinical, genetic and brain imaging approaches. He has received scientific prizes and awards from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the National Institutes of Health, the French Academy of Medicine, the American College for Neuropsychopharmacology, the College on Problems on Drug Dependence, the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Pfizer, OPGRC, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Ontario Lung Association and NARSAD.
