Dr. Stephanie Ameis
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Stephanie Ameis is a Clinician-Scientist in the Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative at the Hospital for Sick Children and CAMH, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, the Associate Director of the CAMH Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression and the Clinician Scientist Program Director for the General Psychiatry Residency Program, Department of Psychiatry (Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto). She completed medical school at McMaster University, residency training at the University of Toronto, and graduate and fellowship training at the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College, London), The Hospital for Sick Children and Montreal Neurological Institute. Dr. Ameis has made important contributions to our field in identifying neuroimaging biomarkers of neurodevelopmental disorders, evaluating efficacy for brain stimulation treatments in autism, and has published evidence-based practice guidelines in autism and ADHD. Several of her publications have been in psychiatry's highest impact journals and she holds funding as Principal Investigator via multiple grants from CIHR and the NIMH. She serves as Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry and Cortex, and has served as a Board Director for Kerry’s Place Autism Services.