Physician-in-Chief
Clinical Director, Geriatric Mental Health Program
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
1001 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H4
(416) 535-8501 ext. 4749
benoit_mulsant@camh.net

 

Dr. Benoit Mulsant is CAMH's Physician-in-Chief as well as the Clinical Director of the Geriatric Mental Health Program in the Clinical Research Department. He is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

 
Areas of Research

Dr. Mulsant has been designing and conducting clinical trials for “hard–to-treat” older patients with mood disorders for more than 15 years. He is concerned about the demographics of an ageing population and the urgency to improve the treatment of seniors with severe mental disorders. He is one of the principal investigators of two major studies: a large placebo-controlled study to investigate the efficacy and tolerability of a combination of a newer antidepressant and an atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of psychotic depression; and the first randomized clinical trial to investigate the efficacy and tolerability of drug therapy for bipolar disorder in late life. In addition, Dr. Mulsant is assessing the nature and course of cognitive impairment in older patients with a psychiatric disorder. He is also involved with a pilot project that uses PET-imaging to investigate how to improve the treatment of late-life schizophrenia.
 
Publications

View Dr. Mulsant's publications on PubMed.