Daniel Felsky

Administrative Assistant: sophie.lafaille@camh.ca

Research Synopsis

The Whole Person and Population Modelling (WPPM) Lab (www.felskylab.com) aims to connect disciplines, integrate data types, and train a new generation of mental health researchers who are able to communicate across boundaries and think holistically about their research questions. The group is positioned at the apex of integrative research at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and aims to:

1) bridge traditional siloes of mental health research by combining cross-disciplinary data types – such as neuroimaging, genetics, blood biomarkers, psychometrics, and social determinants of health with cutting-edge statistical and machine learning approaches, and 

2) conceptualize mental illness and wellness as a product of brain and body, considering the function of both central and peripheral systems and organs.

As such, the WPPM group covers a highly diverse research portfolio including studies of early-, mid-, and late-life mental health, with expertise in high-dimensional computation, neurobiology, epidemiology and biostatistics, and environmental determinants of clinical and social wellbeing.