Dr. Nicole Kozloff is a scientist, child and adolescent psychiatrist, and director of the Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is also an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Additionally, she provides psychiatric services through Slaight Centre Early Intervention Services, CAMH’s early psychosis intervention program.
Dr. Kozloff completed her Doctor of Medicine at Queen’s University, residency training in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a Master of Science in health policy and management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Her work has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ontario Ministry of Health, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, SSHRC, Brain Canada, Ontario Brain Institute, University of Toronto, CAMH AFP Innovation Fund and CAMH Foundation, including as a Koerner New Scientist. She has been awarded the CIHR–CPA Glenda M. MacQueen Memorial Career Development Award for Women in Psychiatry and the PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship.
Areas of Research
Dr. Kozloff’s research broadly aims to improve the delivery of mental health services for transition-age youth. She studies developmental trajectories, mental health service utilization, and models of care for youth with serious and complex mental illness. She collaborates with youth with lived experience of mental health challenges, their families, service providers, policymakers, and other key partners in her work. Specific areas of focus include understanding and intervening to improve engagement in early psychosis intervention services, leveraging data to improve delivery of mental health services to youth, and developing standards and novel models of care for youth with complex mental health needs.
Publications
View Dr. Kozloff’s publications on PubMed.