Division of Child Psychiatry Research Seminar: Medical Psychiatric Genetics, Dr. Yannis Trakadis
Research Seminar
Tuesday, November 07th, 2017
12:30 to 2:00 PM
The Child Psychiatry Research Committee is sponsoring a Child Psychiatry Research Seminar. 听This seminar is open to all staff and students. The seminar will be informal and encourage active audience participation and discussion.
鈥淢edical Psychiatric Genetics鈥�
Presenter: 听Yannis Trakadis, MD,
Dr. Trakadis is a medical geneticist and a specialist in metabolic genetics at 黑料不打烊. He is accepting referrals for patients with psychiatric disease in his clinic at the Glen and recently he started a psychiatric genetics clinic at the Douglas hospital. 听Dr. Trakadis鈥� research focus lies on psychiatric genomics and inborn errors of metabolism associated with cognitive and neuropsychiatric impairment. His lab has been analyzing thousands of exomes from patients with SCZ and unaffected controls in an effort to advance complex psychiatric genomics. Dr. Trakadis is also involved in research combining metabolomics and genomics for the discovery of biomarkers in psychiatry and for the diagnosis of metabolic genetic disorders in psychiatric clinics.
Date:
Tuesday, November 07th, 2017
Time:
12:30 to 2:00 PM
Place:
The Montreal Children鈥檚 Hospital, Glen Site
1001 Decarie Blvd.
Block B
Conference room 鈥� B 08 3019
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Learning Objectives:
1. 听 听 听 听Participants will understand the current state of clinical psychiatric genetics
2. 听 听 听 听Participants will learn how research on genomics helps advance this field.
3. 听 听 听 听Participants will understand the applications of metabolomics in psychiatric clinics听