Department of Psychiatry, The Hospital for Sick Children, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Biography
Dr. Daphne Korczak is the Director of theâ¯Children'sâ¯Integrated Mood and Body (CLIMB) Depression Program, aâ¯Childâ¯and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Clinician-Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at SickKidsâ¯and University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the relationship between depression in childhood and premature cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood, with the aim of identifying putative targets for intervention; a secondary area of research is youth suicide prevention, in which Dr. Korczak leads the first RCT of a suicide prevention intervention in Canada. Within these areas of research,