2026 Conference Calendar

22:00-00:30 Registration/Information Desk ( Alpine Gallery Main Lobby )

13:00-22:00 Registration/Information Desk ( Alpine Gallery Main Lobby )

13:30-15:00 Hot Buffet Breakfast ( Heritage Hall )

13:50-14:00 Opening Remarks ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )

14:00-15:00 Keynote: Eco-Anxiety, Youth, and Wildfires in the Northwest Territories ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Carmen Logie

15:00-16:00 Keynote: Is it Major Depression or Bipolar Disorder? ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Diane McIntosh

16:00-16:15 Break ( Heritage Hall )

16:15-16:25 PFSP - Who We Are and What We Do ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )

16:25-17:25 Keynote: Redefining the Concept of Medicine as a Calling: A Path to Resilience and Wellbeing ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Sam Chang

17:25-17:55 Lunch Buffet ( Heritage Hall )

17:55-19:10 Panel Discussion: The Alberta Recovery Model - Leveraging Successes and Expanding Supports for Mental Health ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Nicholas MitchellMr. Evan RomanowDr. Robert TanguayDr. David Tano

19:15-20:15 Addressing the Risks of Problematic Internet Use Among Vulnerable Youth: Clinical Perspectives ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Anthony Rostain

20:15-20:30 Break ( Heritage Hall )

20:20-20:35

20:30-21:15

20:30-21:15

20:30-21:00

20:30-21:15

20:40-20:55

21:00-21:15

21:15-22:00

21:15-22:00

21:15-22:00

21:20-21:35

21:40-21:55

23:00-01:30 Family Fun Night ( Lago )

03:00-05:59 Residents' Reception ( Fairview Bar )

13:00-22:00 Registration/Information Desk ( Alpine Gallery Main Lobby )

13:30-15:00 Hot Buffet Breakfast ( Heritage Hall )

14:00-15:00 CPA Presidential Opening: Canadian Guidance for the “Grievous and Irremediable” Criterion and Suicide Risk in Persons with Mental Disorders who Request MAID ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Paul S. LinksDr. Lilian U. Thorpe

15:00-16:00 Beyond First-Rank Symptoms: Navigating Complexity in Schizophrenia Care ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Valerie Primeau

16:00-16:10 Refreshment Break ( Heritage Hall )

16:10-18:10 Mental Health, Trauma & Healing ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Ramneek DosanjhDr. Gabor Maté

18:10-18:40 Lunch Buffet ( Heritage Hall )

18:40-19:10 Presidential Welcome & AGM Updates ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )

19:15-19:30 RESIDENT: From Courtroom to Clinic: The Role of the Compassionate Intervention Act in Shaping Substance Use Treatment for Forensic Patients ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Nidhi Malhi Kalina Pashniak

19:15-20:15 WORKSHOP: Pediatric Medical Psychiatry Unit - Lessons from the First Year ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Cristian Zeni

19:15-20:15 WORKSHOP: Pausing for Surprise: An Expressive Writing Workshop ( Beehive/Lakeshore )
Speaker(s): Dr. Janet De GrootDr. Elizabeth Wallace

19:35-19:50 RESIDENT: From Taarof to Table ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Adibba AdelDr. Yekta Sharafaddin-zadeh

19:55-20:10 RESIDENT: Investigating the Impact of Serotonergic Psychedelic Drugs, MDMA and Ketamine on Social Cognition in Psychiatric Disorders: A Scoping Review ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Nicholas Lik Hang Lee

20:15-20:30 RESIDENT: iTBS for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorder ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Raza Qadri

20:20-21:20 WORKSHOP: Communicating with Family Carers: Barriers and Bridges to Family-Integrated Care of Young Adults with Psychosis ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Melanie Robles Katherine Shettell

20:20-21:20 WORKSHOP: Why Weight? Considerations for Obesity Management in Mental Health Care ( Beehive/Lakeshore )
Speaker(s): Dr. Atul KhullarDr. Jennifer Swainson

20:35-20:50 RESIDENT: The Missing Piece: A Case Report of Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Emma Hamid

20:55-21:10 RESIDENT: Synergizing with Ketamine: Mechanistic and Translational Insights from Glutamatergic Adjunctive Agents ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Kalutota Samarasinghe

21:20-21:30 Break ( Heritage Hall )

21:30-22:30 WORKSHOP: What Makes Changing Our Minds So Hard - Active Inference, Free Energy, Computational Psychiatry and the Neuroscience of Behaviour ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Richard Hibbard

21:30-22:30 WORKSHOP: The Hidden Curriculum - Making the Implicit (more) Explicit ( Beehive/Lakeshore )
Speaker(s): Dr. Monique Jericho

21:35-21:50 RESIDENT: Ketamine and Esketamine for Post-partum Depression: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Gilmar Gutierrez

21:55-22:10 RESIDENT: Early Psychosis Intervention Programs: Clinical Impacts, Economic Value, and the Need for Urgent Provincial Expansion in Alberta ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Rees Kelly

22:15-22:30 RESIDENT: Participant Acceptability and Feedback Regarding a Community-Based Mental Health Workshop Designed for Black Communities in Canada ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Deborah Adesegun

22:30-23:30 Delegate Reception ( Heritage Hall )

13:00-14:30 Hot Buffet Breakfast ( Heritage Hall )

16:00-16:15 Refreshment Break ( Heritage Hall )