Assistant Professor  |  Full Member

Matthew Sloan

Location
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Research Interests
Mental Health & Behavioral Conditions, Drug Development, Pharmacology & Toxicology
Research Themes
Neuroscience, Brain Health
Accepting
MSc

Research Synopsis

Dr. Sloan is a clinician scientist specializing in the treatment of substance use disorders and their psychiatric comorbidities. He completed medical school and psychiatry residency at McGill University followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Human Psychopharmacology at the National Institutes of Health and an Addiction Psychiatry fellowship at Yale University. His primary research interests are developing innovative new treatments for substance use disorders and exploring determinants of psychopharmacological response to drugs of abuse. He has obtained competitive funding from CIHR and the CAMH Discovery Fund and has received scientific prizes from the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.