About Us
Paul Grof, M.D., PhD, FRCPC
Director of the Mood Disorders Centre of Ottawa
Following his graduation in medicine, Paul Grof took his psychiatric training and became specialized in psychiatry in 1962. He worked as a research psychiatrist in the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, and as a fellow in psychoendocrinology of affective disorders in West Germany. In the fall of 1968 Dr. Grof was recruited as research psychiatrist and faculty member at McMaster University, Canada.
Between 1974 and 1977 he helped develop and run Affective disorder Clinics at the Sunnybrook Medical Center at the University of Toronto, and several other Canadian universities. Dr. Grof spent 1977 and 1978 as a Visiting Scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, initially in a clinical neuropharmacology branch with Dennis Murphy and later in the psychobiology branch with Fred Goodwin.
In l982 Dr. Grof became Director of Research and Education at the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, a teaching hospital of McMaster University where he expanded research activities in psychobiology, and established a psychopharmacology research and training center. 1985 -2000 he was active as Expert of the World Health Organization, Mental Health section and chaired both an Expert committee and a Working Group on psychotropic drugs. From 1988 to 1993 Dr. Grof was Clinical Director of the Royal Ottawa Hospital and subsequently directed there clinical and research activities in mood disorders.
He is currently Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and directs Mood Disorders Center of Ottawa. He has published over 400 articles and three books, and received several national and international research awards.
Anne Duffy, M.D., FRCPC
Associate Professor McGill University
Associate Director of the Mood Disorders Centre of Ottawa
Dr Duffy was born in Toronto, Ontario. She completed her Honours Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Psychology at McMaster University. Following this, Dr Duffy completed a Masters in Medical Sciences at McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences. Her thesis investigated the effects of state and trait anxiety of the quality and quantity of breastmilk.
She started her Doctoral level graduate studies in Neuropsychology at the University of Victoria, but then left this to study Medicine at the University of Calgary. After completing an M.D. degree, Dr Duffy undertook a Rotating Internship at the Rockyview Hospital in Calgary. She then completed specialty training in Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. After earning her FRCPC, she completed a 2-year Clinical Research Training Fellowship funded by the Ontario Mental Health Foundation investigating the early course of bipolar disorder in children of affected parents.
Over the past 10 years, Dr. Duffy has developed the high risk research with operating grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Ontario Mental Health Foundation. She has received personal awards from the National Alliance of Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders and from CIHR. Most recently Dr. Duffy has been recruited to McGill University to continue the development of the high risk and early onset research in Mood Disorders and has been awarded a Canada Research Chair.
Research Team Members
Tammy Kraushaar, R.N.
Clinical/research director
Aggi Hutton, R.N.
Administrative Assistant
Carla Leuschen, B.A. (Hon)
Research assistant/database manager
Consultants: Yolanda Martins PhD - statistics and design, Margaret McKinnon-nerocognition
Collaborators: Mood Disorders Programs at Dalhousie U., McMaster U., U of T and UBC