Senior Medical Consultant
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Ontario
Peter Selby, MBBS, CCFP(AM), FCFP, MHSc, DipABAM, DFASAM
Senior Medical Consultant, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Clinician Scientist, Addictions Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Professor, Departments of Family and Community Medicine, Psychiatry, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Dr. Peter Selby is a Senior Medical Consultant and Clinician Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is the Vice-Chair, Research and Giblon Professor in Family Medicine Research, a University Named Professorship at the University of Toronto. He is also the Director of the Mental Health and Addictions Division in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto. His research focus is on innovative methods to understand and treat addictive behaviours and their comorbidities. He also uses technology to combine clinical medicine and public health methods to scale up and test health interventions. His cohort of >300,000 treated smokers in Ontario is an example.
He has received grant funding totaling over 100 million dollars from CIHR, NIH, and Ministry of Health and has published >150 peer reviewed publications. He has published 6 books (including 5 edited), is the author of 31 book chapters, and 38 research reports prepared for the government. He is the Chair of the Medical Education Council for the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Selby mentors Fellows in Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry, junior investigators and medical students. The use of innovative methods to communicate messages makes Dr. Selby a sought after speaker for various topics including addictive disorders, motivational interviewing, and health behavior change at individual and system levels.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM