Dr Muhammad Ishrat Husain
Pan American Division Chair
Dr Ishrat Husain [MBBS, MD(Res.), FRCPsych (UK)] is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, where he also holds the Cameron Wilson Chair in Depression Studies. He serves as the Department Head and Program Medical Director of the Centre for Mental Health, University Health Network, Canada’s top academic health centre.
Dr Husain attended medical school at the St. George’s University of London, completed his psychiatry training in the South London and Maudsley training scheme, and his doctoral research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London. He returned home to Toronto in 2017.
Dr Husain's research program focusses on advancing understanding and treatment of mood disorders across populations through clinical trials of established and emerging treatments. His research has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Grand Challenges Canada, and the Wellcome Trust and his publications have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Psychiatry, and JAMA Psychiatry.
Dr Husain’s work has been recognized with numerous provincial, national, and international awards. Dr. Husain is passionate about addressing gaps in mental health care, training and research while supporting and mentoring the next generation of psychiatrists, clinicians, and scientists, to pursue a career in academic psychiatry.