The Training and Fellowship Committee aims to encourage training in addiction psychiatry, recognizing that substance use disorder and addiction management as conditions within the purview of psychiatry, such that clinical and non-clinical education in psychiatry residency should reflect. The aim of the Committee is to establish Canadian standards for residency and fellowship training, and work towards establishing addiction psychiatry as a Canadian subspecialty within psychiatry.
Dr. Ignaszewski is a Harvard and UCSF trained psychiatrist with board certification in Adult, Addiction, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Canada and the USA. She is the Senior Medical Director of Substance Use and Concurrent Disorders and the Clinical Lead of the Substance Use Response and Facilitation (SURF) Service at BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital, and works as the Education Lead and as a Consulting Psychiatrist with the Complex Pain and Addiction Service (CPAS) at Vancouver General Hospital. She is also an early career researcher and a Research Scientist Co-Lead of the Substance Use Disorder Clinical Research Unit at the Hope to Health Research & Innovation Complex with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Dr. Ignaszewski is passionate about medical education and working with learners across the educational spectrum. Reducing the stigma of addiction and psychiatric conditions, and providing an understanding about the developmental perspective and impacts of social determinants of health on substance use disorders, and the intersection between addiction and concurrent disorders are areas of focus with learners and clinically.
Dr. Ignaszewski is a Harvard and UCSF trained psychiatrist with board certification in Adult, Addiction, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Canada and the USA.
Dr. Crockford is a Professor with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada where he has worked for over 27 years as a psychiatrist. He is the Clinical Medical Director for the Foothills Medical Centre Early Psychosis Intervention Program and a consulting psychiatrist to the Foothills Medical Centre Addiction Program and Adult Psychosis Program, treating patients with concurrent psychiatric and substance use disorders. He certified in Addiction Medicine in 2006 via the American Society of Addiction Medicine and then with the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) in 2009. In 2023 he became a Diplomat of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) with an Area of Focused Competence (AFC) in Addiction Medicine. He is on the CSAM board of directors and Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian Journal of Addiction (CJA) after being a Deputy Editor for the CJA since 2018. He is also a Member-at-Large for the RCPSC AFC in Addiction Medicine. Dr. Crockford has published in addiction psychiatry throughout his career with over 50 peer reviewed papers, 3 book chapters, 4 editorials, and 14 research letters with over 2000 citations and an h-index of 18 per Google Scholar. His published work focuses on education in addiction, concurrent psychiatric and substance use disorders, gambling disorder, and functional brain neuroimaging. He is a past two-time Chair of the Addictions Section for the Canadian Psychiatric Association as well as prior International Area Director and International Member-at-Large for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association.
The current public health emergency based on the opioid overdose crisis and a historic mortality due to a mental illness is a critical challenge. We all need to step up our response through:
The Canadian Academy for Addiction Psychiatry (CAAP) wants to attract every engaged professional in the field to strive towards outcome oriented collaboration to achieve high quality care and synergy caring for the most vulnerable.
