Current Chair
Dr. Martin Tremblay, MD, M.S.C., FRCPC
Chair of the Board of Directors
Mental Illness Foundation
He also made a name for himself in the academic milieu as a clinical assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal and coordinator of the clinical education unit of the Psychiatry Department at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal. In addition to all this, he is the scientific spokesperson for the Mental Illness Foundation.
As a researcher, Dr. Tremblay has taken part in some 30 research projects focusing on such varied topics as the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, depression and anxiety disorders.
He has authored many scientific works and participated, along with other psychiatrists, in writing the Urgences psychiatriques chapter in the book entitled Psychiatrie Clinique : Approche contemporaine, published by Gaétan Morin in 2001.
An experience communicator and well informed educator, Dr. Tremblay clears away the mystery surrounding mental illnesses and makes them easy for everyone to understand. As the Mental Illness Foundation’s scientific spokesperson, he has given many public conferences and granted numerous interviews to the written and electronic media in Quebec.
He practises psychiatry at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM). He divides his time between seeing to his responsibilities at the CHUM and performing consulting and clinical research at Expertise Neurosciences. He is also an associate professor in the Psychiatry Department at the Université de Montréal.
For several years, Dr. Tremblay was also the scientific spokesperson of the Foundation on questions regarding various aspects of mental illness, such as prevention, treatments and therapies, and advances in research.