Bernard Langer Annual Lecture in Health Sciences

The keynote lecture was established to honour the achievements of Dr. Bernard Langer in establishing the Surgeon-Scientist training program at the University of Toronto during his tenure as Chair of the Department of Surgery from 1982 -1992.

Each year, a guest speaker is selected to give a talk at IMS Scientific Day who is internationally recognized for their scientific contributions and is also known to be an excellent role model and mentor for graduate students.

We are thrilled to be welcoming keynote speaker Dr. Akira Sawa, MD, PhD who will be giving a lecture on "Multimodal, longitudinal study for psychotic disorders: homeostatic signaling to neural connectivity." 

Dr. Sawa is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the John Hopkins School of Medicine. His research is directed towards understanding the pathogenesis of major mental illnesses, especially schizophrenia and mood disorders, at the molecular level.