Dr. Tony P. George is a senior scientist at CAMH’s Institute for Mental Health Policy Research (IMHPR), and a professor of psychiatry 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 held several leadership positions, including as Chief of Schizophrenia (2008-16) and Addictions (2016-19) Divisions and Medical Director of the Complex Mental Illness Program (2012-16) at CAMH, and Co-Director of the Brain and Therapeutics Division in the UofT Department of Psychiatry (2006-2018).
Areas of Research
Dr. George’s Biobehavioural Addictions and Concurrent Disorders Research Laboratory (BACDRL) at CAMH focuses on understanding and treating substance use disorders (e.g. cannabis and tobacco) in people with serious mental illness, with a focus on drug abstinence, neurocognition and neuromodulation. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles, reviews and other reports. His work has been continuously funded by NIDA/NIH and CIHR since 1999. He wrote the chapter on Nicotine and Tobacco in Cecil Textbook of Medicine in the last four editions (2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023), as well as for the upcoming 2027 edition. In 2023, he was appointed as Co-Principal Editor for Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP), the official journal of The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP).
Publications
View Dr. George's publications on PubMed or Google Scholar.