Dr. Mulsant is a senior scientist with the Adult Neurodevelopment and Geriatric Psychiatry division at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is also a professor and the Labatt Family Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and a full member at the Institute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
He completed his MD at Université Laval, internship at McGill University, residency at the University of Pittsburgh, a post-doctoral fellowship and a MS in artificial intelligence in medicine at Carnegie Mellon University.
He is a Fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, a Diplomate in Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, and a Distinguished Life Fellow, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. He has been recognized with several awards including the 2017 Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and the 2023 Presidential Scientific Award from the American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry.
Areas of Research
The overarching goal of Dr. Mulsant’s work over the past 30+ years has been to improve the treatment of older persons with severe mental disorders. His main scientific focus has been on designing and conducting complex clinical trials for “hard–to-treat” mood disorders (e.g., late-life depression with cognitive impairment, treatment-resistant depression, psychotic depression, bipolar disorder). Another major focus has been using these clinical trials as platforms to identify biomarkers or other predictors of clinical trajectories and treatment outcomes.
His work has been continuously funded since 1992 (with a total of $177M in direct funding, including $73M as PI and $32M as co-PI). As of October 2023, the results have been reported in more than 650 peer-reviewed publications (h-index: 107; citations: 47,429) in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, or PNAS.
Publications
View Dr. Mulsant’s publications on PubMed.