Alain Lesage MD, FRCP (C), MPhil, DFAPA, FCPA

Dr. Lesage is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal, as well as a psychiatrist at the Montreal University Mental Health Institute (IUSMM - formerly Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital) and researcher at its Research Centre Until recently, he was associate director of the Québec Network on Suicide funded by the Québec health and social Research Funds. Since 2011, he is a medical expert on the development of mental disorders indicators with the Quebec Integrated Chronic Disease Surveillance System of Quebec’s public health agency.

He graduated in medicine from the University of Sherbrooke (Québec) and completed his training as a psychiatrist in the hospital system affiliated with the University of Montreal. He completed his research training with a three-year postdoctoral at the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital, London (Great Britain), and a year in Verona (Italy) at the Istituto di Psichiatria. He has been a visiting scholar in 1994-1995, at the Health Systems Research Unit, Clarke Institute of Toronto; National Health Research Scholar of Québec 1999-2004; and invited scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health from 2003 to 2005. Through evaluative and epidemiological research, he studies the needs for care and services for people with severe mental disorders.