Dr. Darren Courtney is a scientist with the Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression and the Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health, and a staff psychiatrist in Child, Youth and Family Services at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is also an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
He earned his MD in 2004 at Queen’s University and completed psychiatry residency in 2009 at the University of Ottawa. He was the clinical director of the Youth Inpatient Unit at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre from 2009 to 2014. He moved to Toronto in 2014 where he worked on the Concurrent Youth Inpatient Unit at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, until 2017; where his clinical work with youth in outpatient services.
Areas of Research
With support from the Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression and the Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health at CAMH, Dr. Courtney's research focus is on the treatment of adolescent depression using an integrated care pathway called CARIBOU – a collaboratively developed treatment algorithm based on high-quality clinical practice guidelines. He conducts clinical trials on integrated care approaches, as well as support large cohort studies being rolled out at CAMH.
Learn more about the clinical materials supporting the CARIBOU pathway.
Learn more about research specific to CARIBOU.
Publications
View Dr. Courtney’s publications on Google Scholar.