The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) located in Ottawa, Ontario, is the research institute of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group and affiliated with the University of Ottawa. The IMHR is dedicated to developing leading-edge multidisciplinary research and training programs with an ultimate goal of fostering innovative ways of treating mental illness.
TheraPsil is a small non-profit coalition dedicated to helping Canadians in medical need access legal, psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy and medical psilocybin.
TheraPsil was formed in 2019 and is made up of healthcare practitioners, patients, community members, and advocates.
In August 2020, after over 100 days of advocating, TheraPsil facilitated precedent-setting and tangible progress in the fight for compassionate access to psilocybin therapy when we helped 4 Canadians suffering from end-of-life distress, due to a terminal illness, access approved ‘section 56 exemptions’ from the Minister of Health, This was the first time section 56 exemptions for psilocybin had been approved for patients since psilocybin was made a controlled substance in 1974, in Canada marking a water-shed moment
As of January 2022, TheraPsil has now supported 55 patients in 5 different provinces access legal, psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy.
We are actively assisting Canadians with existential distress as a result of a past or present terminal or life-threatening diagnosis pursue legal access to psilocybin to be used in conjunction with psychotherapy.
The Timmins and District Hospital is a fully accredited (Accreditation Canada) referral and teaching hospital serving the residents of the City of Timmins and Cochrane District as well as the adjoining areas of the Temiskaming, Sudbury and Algoma districts. TADH is dedicated to providing health care services that are consistent with the needs of our community and catchment area. The hospital offers a full range of medical, surgical, critical care, maternity, newborn, pediatric, long-term care and mental health services as well extensive health education and district services. TADH houses 154 beds hospital wide, with an additional 29 surge beds created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has approximately 850 frontline staff and 70 physicians. The hospital is a leader in state-of-the-art telecommunications and diagnostic equipment connecting physicians and staff to medical practitioners and specialists throughout Canada.
The Quality Management in Clinical Research (QMCR) Unit was created to provide an oversight mechanism for human research activities conducted at the University of Alberta. To ensure QMCR had an arms’ length relationship with both ethics and research administration, it was decided, with the approval of the Board Audit Committee, that the unit be housed with Internal Audit Services.