Drug Free Kids Canada’s Advisory Council
Our Advisory Council is comprised of a group of talented and committed subject matter experts who are closely involved in the fields of youth substance abuse, addiction and drug prevention.
DFK Canada has access to their combined expertise to ensure that our website content is kept up to date with the latest scientific and evidence based information available.
For information on how to contact any one of our Advisory Council Members, please contact us at: info@drugfreekidscanada.org.
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Glenn Barnes, MHA
Expertise: Youth Addiction Treatment
Health Administrator, Consultant
Former CEO – Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre, Ottawa -
Dr. Sean Barrett, PhD
Expertise: Substance Abuse and Addiction
Assoc. Professor and Director of Clinical Training,
Dept of Psychology/Neuroscience, Dalhousie University
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Dr. Richard Bélanger, MD FRCPC
Expertise: Adolescent and young adult health
Pediatrician specializing in Adolescence, Clinical Researcher – Centre mère-enfant Soleil CHU Québec – Université Laval
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Rose-Marie Charest
Expertise: Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist with a private practice, Past President of Quebec Order of Psychologists
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Dr. Peter Choate, PhD, RSW
Expertise: Child Protection and Addiction
Clinical Social Worker and Ass’t Professor of Social Work, Mount Royal University -
Dr. Patricia Conrod, PhD
Expertise: Youth Addiction Prevention
(CoVenture – a school drug prevention and health program)
Psychologist and Professor of Psychology, Université de Montreal
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Dr. Victoria Creighton, Psy.D
Expertise: Treatment of drug and alcohol abuse and addiction in youth
Clinical Director, Pine River Institute, Ontario -
Dr. Claude Cyr, MD
Expertise: Pain Management and Mental Health
Family Practitioner and founder of Doctors for Responsible Access
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Kathryn Djordjevic, RPh, BScPhm
Expertise : Pharmacist
Independent Consultant for clinical practice, education, and health tech startups -
Deputy Chief Tim Farquharson
Expertise: Law Enforcement
Deputy Chief of Police, Peterborough Police Service, Drug Advisory Committee, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP), Substance Advisory Committee, Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, (OACP)
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Dr. Tony P. George M.D., FRCPC
Expertise: Pharmacology of drugs of abuse, co-morbid substance abuse and serious mental illness.
Chief of Addictions, CAMH
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto -
Dr. Abby Goldstein, PhD
Expertise: Addictive Behaviours among adolescents
Clinical Psychologist,
Canada Research Chair in the Psychology of Emerging Adulthood,
Associate Professor of Psychology, OISE, University of Toronto
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David Hammond, PhD
Expertise: Global Health, Drug Policy and Harm Reduction
Professor, CIHR-PHAC Chair in Applied Public Health, University of Waterloo
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Dr. Martin Laliberté, MD
Expertise: Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology
Medical Director of the Canadian Association of Poison Control Centres Ass’t Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Anne Elizabeth Lapointe
Expertise: Addiction and Prevention
Executive Director, Addiction Prevention Centre (APC) and Maison Jean Lapointe
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Dr. Steven Laviolette
Expertise: Neuroscientist
Researchs Neurobiology of addiction, schizophrenia, autism and PTSD. Assoc. Professor University of Western Ontario
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Dr. Chris Montoya, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Expertise: Physiological Psychology, Cognitive Neuropsychology
Psychologist with a private practice, Academic and Senior Lecturer at Thompson Rivers University -
Dr. Marie-Eve Morin, MD, CMFC
Expertise: General Practitioner, Addiction Treatment
Founder and Medical Director of Clinique Caméléon
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Dr. Louise Nadeau
Expertise: Alcohol, substance and gambling addictions
Psychologist, Professor of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Associate Researcher, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University -
Christina Nona, HBsc
Expertise: Addiction research,
Neuropharmacology, Statistics
PhD Candidate, Neuropharmacology, University of Toronto
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Dr. Amy Porath, PhD
Expertise: Youth mental health and addiction
Director, Research and Knowledge Mobilization, Knowledge Institute on Child and Youth Mental Health and Addictions, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario -
Dr. John Sader
Expertise: Family medicine
Family Practitioner specializing in substance use disorders and dependency.
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Chief Constable Mike Serr
Expertise: Law Enforcement
Chief Constable, Abbotsford Police Department, Drug Abuse Committee Chair, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) -
Dr. Jacqueline Smith, RN, BN, PhD
Expertise: Educator, Family and Addiction Counsellor
Director of Mental Health & Wellness, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary
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Dr. Maude St-Onge, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Expertise: Emergency physician Clinical pharmacology and toxicology
Director, Quebec Ministry of Health Poison and Drug Information Service -
Dr. Philip Tibbo
Expertise: Psychiatrist, Psychotic Disorders
Professor, Researcher, Dalhousie University, Director of the Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program (NSEPP)
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Dr. Christine Wekerle, PhD
Expertise: Pediatric Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology
Associate Professor Pediatrics at McMaster University
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Dr. Mark Yarema, MD FRCPC
Expertise: Emergency Physician and Medical Toxicologist
Ass’t Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Calgary
Medical Director of Alberta’s Poison and Drug Information Service (PADIS)