Dr. Tony P. George is a senior scientist at CAMH’s Institute for Mental Health Policy Research (IMHPR), and a professor of psychiatry in the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto (UofT).
He received his undergraduate and medical school training at Dalhousie University, then completed psychiatry residency (1992-96) and fellowship in Translational Neuroscience (1996-98) at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. He was on the Yale Psychiatry faculty from 1998-2007, and then moved to Toronto as the inaugural Chair in Addiction Psychiatry at UofT (2006-2012). He has served in several senior clinical and administrative positions at CAMH and in the Department of Psychiatry at UofT since 2008, including as the co-director of the Division of Brain and Therapeutics in Psychiatry at UofT (2008-18), chief of the Schizophrenia (2008-16) and Addictions (2016-19) Divisions at CAMH.
Dr. George has published over 325 peer-reviewed original research articles, reviews and other reports. Since 2023, he has been co-principal editor of the journal of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP; 2023 Impact Factor 7.6). He also wrote the chapter on Nicotine and Tobacco for Cecil Textbook of Medicine in 2011, 2015, 2019 and the new 2023 editions. In 2022, he was appointed Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Canadian Centre for Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA).
Areas of Research
Dr. George’s BACDRL Lab at CAMH focuses on understanding the biology of addiction co-morbidity in people with serious mental illness (e.g. schizophrenia, mood disorders, PTSD), and translating this knowledge towards novel and more effective treatment for concurrent disorders. His research program (BACDRL) is supported by recent project grants from CIHR, and NIDA/NIH.
Publications
View Dr. George's publications on PubMed.