2026 Conference Calendar

16:00-18:30 Registration/Information Desk ( Alpine Gallery Main Lobby )

07:00-16:00 Registration/Information Desk ( Alpine Gallery Main Lobby )

07:30-09:00 Hot Buffet Breakfast ( Heritage Hall )

07:50-08:00 Opening Remarks ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )

08:00-09:00 Keynote: Eco-Anxiety, Youth, and Wildfires in the Northwest Territories ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Carmen Logie

09:00-10:00 Keynote: Is it Major Depression or Bipolar Disorder? ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Diane McIntosh

10:00-10:15 Break ( Heritage Hall )

10:15-10:25 PFSP - Who We Are and What We Do ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )

10:25-11:25 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

11:25-11:55 Lunch Buffet ( Heritage Hall )

11:55-13:10 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

13:15-14:15 Addressing the Risks of Problematic Internet Use Among Vulnerable Youth: Clinical Perspectives ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Anthony Rostain

14:15-14:30 Break ( Heritage Hall )

14:20-14:35

14:30-15:15

14:30-15:15

14:30-15:00

14:30-15:15

14:40-14:55

15:00-15:15

15:15-16:00

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15:20-15:35

15:40-15:55

17:00-19:30 Family Fun Night ( Lago )

21:00-23:59 Residents' Reception ( Fairview Bar )

07:00-16:00 Registration/Information Desk ( Alpine Gallery Main Lobby )

07:30-09:00 Hot Buffet Breakfast ( Heritage Hall )

08:00-09:00 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

09:00-10:00 Beyond First-Rank Symptoms: Navigating Complexity in Schizophrenia Care ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Valerie Primeau

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

10:10-12:10 Mental Health, Trauma & Healing ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Ramneek DosanjhDr. Gabor Maté

12:10-12:40 Lunch Buffet ( Heritage Hall )

12:40-13:10 Presidential Welcome & AGM Updates ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )

13:15-14:15 WORKSHOP: Pediatric Medical Psychiatry Unit - Lessons from the First Year ( Mount Temple Ballroom A/B )
Speaker(s): Dr. Cristian Zeni

13:15-13:30 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

13:15-14:15 WORKSHOP: Pausing for Surprise: An Expressive Writing Workshop ( Beehive/Lakeshore )
Speaker(s): Dr. Janet De GrootDr. Elizabeth Wallace

13:35-13:50 RESIDENT: From Taarof to Table ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Adibba AdelDr. Yekta Sharafaddin-zadeh

13:55-14:10 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

14:15-14:30 RESIDENT: iTBS for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorder ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Raza Qadri

14:20-15:20 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

14:20-15:20 WORKSHOP: Why Weight? Considerations for Obesity Management in Mental Health Care ( Beehive/Lakeshore )
Speaker(s): Dr. Atul KhullarDr. Jennifer Swainson

14:35-14:50 RESIDENT: The Missing Piece: A Case Report of Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Emma Hamid

14:55-15:10 RESIDENT: Synergizing with Ketamine: Mechanistic and Translational Insights from Glutamatergic Adjunctive Agents ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Kalutota Samarasinghe

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

15:30-16:30 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

15:30-16:30 WORKSHOP: The Hidden Curriculum - Making the Implicit (more) Explicit ( Beehive/Lakeshore )
Speaker(s): Dr. Monique Jericho

15:35-15:50 RESIDENT: Ketamine and Esketamine for Post-partum Depression: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis ( Saddleback/Glacier )
Speaker(s): Dr. Gilmar Gutierrez

15:55-16:10 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

16:15-16:30 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

16:30-17:30 Delegate Reception ( Heritage Hall )

07:00-08:30 Hot Buffet Breakfast ( Heritage Hall )

10:00-10:15 Refreshment Break ( Heritage Hall )