You are invited: UBC Department of Psychiatry Annual General Meeting, February 13, 2025

Dear Department members,

We are delighted to share that, following careful review and deliberation by an external Scientific Committee comprised of members outside of UBC and Canada, the selection process for the 2024/2025 Stimulus Grants Initiative has been completed.

A total of three innovative projects have been recommended for funding by the Committee across the Clinician, Junior Academic, and Child & Youth Mental Health streams, selected out of the many outstanding proposals we received this cycle. 

Congratulations to the following awardees:

STIMULUS – CLINICAL GRANT

• Principal: Dr. Ashok Krishnamoorthy, Clinical Associate Professor
  Co-applicant: Daniel Vigo
  Contingency management to increase antipsychotic treatment retention in Provincial Correction

STIMULUS – JUNIOR ACADEMIC GRANT

• Principal: Dr. Marianne Hrabok, PGY4 Resident, Research Track
  Co-applicant: Dr. Lakshmi Yatham
  Real world clinical and functional outcomes in difficult to treat depression: A preliminary study of supratherapeutic dosing, es/ketamine, rTMS, and ECT in an Interventional Psychiatry Clinic

STIMULUS – CHILD & YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH GRANT

• Principal: Dr. Martha J. Ignaszewski, Clinical Assistant Professor
  Co-applicant: Michael Krausz
  Youth Overdose Cohort: Post overdose treatment experience of adolescents and young adults. A pilot and feasibility study

The Stimulus Grants Initiative was launched in 2022 by the UBC Department of Psychiatry, in partnership with the UBC Institute of Mental Health (UBC IMH) and BC Children’s Hospital, to increase research capacity and support for clinicians, residents and junior academics seeking to initiate pilot or small, self-contained studies in their areas of interest in mental health.

Please keep in mind that the next Stimulus Grants application cycle will open on June 1, 2025!

On behalf of the UBC Department of Psychiatry, the UBC IMH and BC Children’s Hospital, we wish much success to each of our 2024/2025 Stimulus Grants recipients as they pursue their respective projects, and we look forward to sharing with you updates regarding their progress in the near future.

Sincerely,

Dr. Lakshmi N. Yatham, Professor and Head, UBC Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Sophia Frangou, Professor and Associate Head, UBC Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Roberto Sassi, Psychiatrist in Chief, BCCH and Associate Professor (Partner) & CAP Division Head, UBC Department of Psychiatry

The UBC Department of Psychiatry Administration Office respectfully acknowledges the land on which we live, work and play is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-waututh).