Benoit Mulsant

Dr. Benoit H. Mulsant is a Professor and the Labatt Family Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto, where he also holds the Labatt Family Chair in Biology of Depression in Late-Life Adults. He is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto.

Dr. Mulsant earned his MD from Laval University, Quebec (1984); he completed his internship in internal medicine and neurology at McGill University (1985), and his residency in psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh (1990). He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship and an interdisciplinary MS in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (1989). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; a Diplomate in Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and of American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. He has been listed in Best Doctors in America and Best Doctors in Canada.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Mulsant has been an investigator on grants with funding totaling more than $180M in direct costs (including $73M as principal investigator or team leader, and $32M as a co-principal investigator). He has authored and co-authored more than 650 peer-reviewed articles (and 65 book chapters and invited publications). His publications (including some in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and JAMA) have resulted in more than 50,000 citations and an h-index of 110. As an educator, he has successfully mentored several generations of academic psychiatrists.