Other Affiliations

Chief of Psychiatry, Women's College Hospital

Scientist, Women's College Research Institute/Women's College Hospital

Shirley A. Brown Memorial Chair in Women’s Mental Health Research, Women's College Hospital

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Recent ICES Grants

Impact of infertility and its treatment on women's mental health

Principal investigators: Dayan N, Velez M
Co-investigators: Basso O, Fell DB, Joseph KS, Lanes A, Nguyen T, Ray JG, Vigod SN

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Grant
2019-2022; $332,776

Suicide-related behaviours of lesbians-gay-and bisexual individuals in Ontario: investigating the socio-environmental determinants of risk and care using linked longitudinal population-based data

Principal investigator: Chum A
Co-investigators: Barker LC, Kennedy SH, O'Campo PJ, Vigod SN

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project grant
2019-2021; $156,825

Maternal diabetes and perinatal mental illness: a population-based study

Principal investigator: Brown HK
Co-investigators: Guttman AS, Ray J, Vigod S

University of Toronto Research and Innovation, Connaught New Researcher Award
2017-2019; $35,000

Recent Awards & Recognition

Shirley A. Brown Memorial Chair in Women’s Mental Health Research

2018: Dr. Simone Vigod appointed for a five year term. The chair is based at Women’s College Hospital (WCH), in collaboration with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) at the University of Toronto.

1/8/2018

Innovation Fund Award for Mental Health and Geriatric Care

2016: Awarded to Dr. Simone Vigod by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and Ontario Medical Association at the Innovation Fund Showcase. Dr. Vigod received the award for her tool to identify psychiatric inpatients at risk for early rehospitalisation, called READMIT.

11/17/2016

CIHR New Investigator Award

2015: Awarded to Dr. Simone Vigod for epidemiology and treatment of maternal mental illness. Dr. Vigod’s research will aim to optimize care for mothers with mental illness and improve maternal and child outcomes.

7/22/2015

Recent ICES Publications

7/14/2020

Preconception health characteristics of women with disabilities in Ontario: a population-based, cross-sectional study

Tarasoff LA, Lunsky Y, Chen S, Guttmann A, Havercamp SM, Parish SL, Vigod SN, Carty A, Brown HK. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2020; Jul 14 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2019.8273

7/2/2020

Patient-level characteristics and inequitable access to inpatient electroconvulsive therapy for depression: a population-based cross-sectional study

Kaster TS, Blumberger DM, Gomes T, Sutradhar R, Daskalakis ZJ, Wijeysundera DN, Vigod SN. Can J Psychiatry. 2020; Jul 2 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0706743720935647

6/8/2020

Discharge and post-discharge outcomes of psychiatric inpatients with a lifetime history of exposure to interpersonal trauma: a population-based study

Gatov E, Koziel N, Kurdyak P, Saunders NR, Chiu M, Lebenbaum M, Chen S, Vigod SN. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2020; June 8 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.05.015

Simone Vigod

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