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Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of Alberta, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Professor Andrew Greenshaw

Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of Alberta, Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of Alberta and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Dr. Andy Greenshaw trained in Europe and Canada. He joined the University of Alberta in 1986 as a Heritage Medical Research Scholar. A fellow of the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CCNP), for which he served as president from 2000 – 2002, and of the Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum (CINP), Andy has serves as University of Alberta Vice President (Research) and has served numerous boards including the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation, the Institute of Health Economics and The University of the Arctic. He served as the founding Co-Chair of the Alberta Addictions and Mental Health Research Partnership Committee (2006 – 2015) and is Research Director for the APEC Digital Hub for Best Practices in Mental Health, a digital hub that will serve the combined APEC population of 2.7 billion people. 

Currently on the Board of Mental Health Research Canada, Andy has extensive experience on Canadian Medical Research Council and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) grant panels since 1989, Andy was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the CIHR Institute of Neuroscience Mental Health & Addiction from 2012 – 2016. From 2015 – 2019 he serves as the director of the Alberta node of the Canadian Depression & Research Intervention Network (CDRIN), for which he served as Chair of the Depression Hubs National Advisory Panel and as a member of the CDRIN Board.  Andy was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research in Ottawa from 2014 – 2017 and is currently a member of the Research Advisory Board for Little Warriors, a national organisation committed to the awareness, prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse. 

His active research includes the application of machine learning and data-mining to prediction of differential diagnosis and treatment responses in mental disorder. He is part of a collaborative computational psychiatry group that includes researchers from the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and the IB Centre for Advanced Study at UAlberta, the IBM TJ Watson Centre in New York, West Sichuan Hospital in Chengdu and NIMHANS in Bangalore. He was the single invited panelist to speak on AI and Health at the Canada-hosted G-7 conference on AI in Montreal in December 2018. Andy was an invited panelist at the Canadian annual eMental Health conference in March 2020 in Toronto, speaking on “Is Change Coming?” and was also an invited participant in training on mental health for the RCMP K Division officers’ training in Edmonton in February 2020. 

Andy is actively engaged in research into post-traumatic stress injury (PTSI), including collaborations with the Canadian Military (HiMARC 3MDR project and an IBM-partnered project using natural language for prediction and prognosis of PTSI/PTSD in Canadian Military and Veterans). His E-health research includes working with Professor Vincent Agyapong’s supportive text messaging group, including the $1M COVID-19 project Text4Hope.

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Global Leadership Council members provide thought leadership from a diverse range of professional backgrounds and experience in eMHIC’s Special Interest Groups. 

Special Interest Groups

GLC Members

Ethics and Law

Richman Wee

Senior Researcher, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Piers Gooding

Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia

Nick Titov

Executive Director, Mindspot, Australia

International Phone and Text Helplines

Andrew Slater

Chief Executive Officer, Whakarongorau, New Zealand

Victoria Hornby

CEO, Mental Health Innovations, UK

Colin Seery

Chief Executive Officer at Lifeline Australia

Policy, Strategy & Standards

Christine Morgan

CEO, National Mental Health Commission of Australia

Ed Mantler

SVP Chief Program Officer, Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC)

Charles Curie

Principle and Founder, The Curie Group, LLC

Dr. Daniel Fung

CEO, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore

Louise Bradley

Former Chief Executive Officer, Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC)

Fran Silvestri

President and CEO, International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL)

Dr Nina Ferencic

Senior Regional Adviser on Adolescent Health, Development and Participation, UNICEF

Liz Ashall-Payne

Founder and CEO, ORCHA

Lived Experience

Mary O'Hagan

Executive Director Lived Experience, Department of Health, Victoria, Australia

Mental Healthcare Workforce

Nicholas Watters

Director of Access, Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC)

Anna Elders

Clinical Lead, Just a Thought, New Zealand

Ashley de Silva

CEO of ReachOut Australia

Niki Legge

Director of Mental Health and Addictions, Government of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Corrections & Confined Spaces

Jay Buckey

Professor of Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, USA

Juanita Ryan

Deputy Chief Executive at Ara Poutama, New Zealand

Evidence Creation

Professor Chee Ng

Professor and Healthscope Chair of Psychiatry at The Melbourne Clinic, Australia

Mindfulness

Angie Chew

Adjunct Associate Professor of mindfulness at the National University of Singapore.

Addie Wooten

CEO, Smiling Mind, Australia

Dr Craig Hassed

Senior lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Dr Bruce Arroll

Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland , New Zealand

Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Andrew Greenshaw

Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience University of Alberta, Canada

Victoria Hornby

CEO, Mental Health Innovations, UK

International Phone and Text Helplines

Victoria is CEO of Mental Health Innovations, the charity behind SHOUT, the UK’s first 24/7 crisis text service. From 2011 to 2017, she was Director of Programmes at The Royal Foundation, building a portfolio of projects including the Invictus Games, Coach Core, United for Wildlife and Heads Together.