James Mackillop PhD

Dr. MacKillop trained as a clinical psychologist at the State University of New York at Binghamton (BA, MA, Ph.D.) and Brown University (predoctoral internship). Dr. MacKillop is the inaugural holder of the Peter Boris Chair in Addictions Research, Director of the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research, and Co-Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research.

Dr. MacKillop’s research has generated over 200 peer-reviewed publications and other works to date and has been recognized by awards from the Society for Addiction Psychology, the Research Society on Alcoholism, and the American Psychological Association. His research program has been funded by extramural grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other extramural funders since 2005. Dr. MacKillop was the recipient of the 2019 Royal Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research, the most prestigious prize in Canada for mental health researchers given to help recognize and support their innovative and ongoing research endeavors.