Speakers/Facilitators

Dr. Marco Solmi

Dr. Solmi is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Ottawa, Canada, Psychiatrist working at The Ottawa Hospital, Investigator at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Scientist at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Berlin, and visiting academic at University of Southampton, Centre for Innovation in Mental Health-Developmental Lab, School of Psychology. He is also Affiliate of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University, US. He is Chair of ECNP Physical And meNtal Health (PAN-Health) Thematic Working Group (TWG), and member of the Prevention of Mental Disorders And Mental Health Promotion TWG. He is also member of the consensus core clinical and psychosocial battery committee, as well as of the new research methods for clinical/psychosocial studies committee of The Canadian Network for Research in Schizophrenia and Psychoses, of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology (CAPE), and of the Canadian Consortium for Early Intervention in Psychosis (CCEIP). His main area of interest is epidemiological and evidence-based psychiatry, leveraging both meta-research techniques and national databases to answer clinically relevant questions. Clinically, he is most interested in prevention/early interventions for mental disorders, psychopharmacology, and physical health in those with mental disorders. He has experience in coordinating large international project, as co-PI of the Collaborative Outcomes study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times (COH-FIT), an online survey translated in 30 languages involving over 230 researchers from over 50 countries measuring functioning and physical and mental health in the general population during COVID-19 pandemic (www.coh-fit.com). As of July 2023, he has published over 360 publications, and Google Scholar H index is now 81. He is listed among Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers in Psychiatry and Psychology since 2021.

Dr. Jess Fiedorowicz

Dr. Fiedorowicz is Head and Chief of the Department of Mental Health at the Ottawa Hospital and a Professor and Senior Research Chair in Adult Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. He is a scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology and Neurosciences Programs of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Outside of his roles in Ottawa, he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychosomatic Research and as a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee.

He graduated summa cum laude from Marquette University and with Honors in Research from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed a medicine (transitional year) internship at St. Luke’s Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin followed by a psychiatry residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he additionally served as a chief resident. He completed a fellowship in the Clinical Neurobiology of the Major Psychoses at the University of Iowa and concurrently completed an M.S. in Clinical Investigation. He later obtained a Ph.D. in Translational Biomedicine and then a graduate certificate in biostatistics from the University of Iowa.

Jess arrived in Ottawa in August 2020 from the University of Iowa, where he was faculty in departments of psychiatry, epidemiology, and internal medicine and still holds an adjunct appointment. In Iowa, he was also the Director of the Mood Disorders Center and co-director of Workforce Development for the Institute of Clinical and Translational Science. His research focuses on the primary causes of excess mortality, suicide and vascular disease, in bipolar and other mood disorders. He values taking an interdisciplinary, team science approach to his work and has over 140 peer-reviewed publications. Clinically, he is board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and in obesity medicine by the American Board of Obesity Medicine. While in the U.S., he was an advocate with Physicians for a National Health Program and volunteered in the local free mental health clinic. He is pleased to be working in a provincial system that provides universal access to health care and doing so within the collegial and collaborative environment of The Ottawa Hospital with its commitment to practice-changing research.

Online Platform for Evidence-Based Interventions for Bipolar Disorder