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Simone Vigod

Senior Adjunct Scientist (Full Status) ICES Central Mental Health & Addictions Research Program

Biography

Simone Vigod is chief of psychiatry at Women's College Hospital. In addition, she is a scientist at Women's College Research Institute. She is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and an adjunct scientist at ICES. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Toronto in 2003, and completed her residency in psychiatry in Toronto in 2009. Having obtained a master's degree in clinical epidemiology in 2011, Dr. Vigod has built a successful research program focusing on epidemiology and health services research relevant to women and men with mental health issues across the lifespan. Her work at ICES focuses on identifying health disparities and pathways of intervention for individuals, particularly women, with mental illness.

  • MSc, Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
  • FRCPC, Psychiatry, University of Toronto
  • MD, University of Toronto
  • BSc, Psychology, McGill University
  • Psychiatric disorders
  • Women’s health
  • 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
  • Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
  • Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

ICES Grants

Grant
2024 - 2028

Maternal attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (m-ADHD): Obstetrical, neonatal, infant and maternal psychiatric outcomes

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Vigod S, Brown HK, Zipursky J
Co-Investigators
Barker L, Clark C, Cohen E, Dennis C-L, Gomes T, Maxwell C, Ray JG, Saunders N, Toulany A
Grant Type
Project Grant
Grant Amount
$604,352
Grant
2024 - 2027

Clinical translation of a genetic diagnosis for mental health in autism: Linking health administrative and genomic data

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Baribeau D
Co-Investigators
Anagnostou E, Kushki A, Trost B, Scherer S, Bronskill B, Vigod S, Brooks J
Grant Type
Project Grant
Grant Amount
$366,353
Grant
2021 - 2025

Maternal disability and child preventive healthcare: supporting family-centred care

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Brown H
Co-Investigators
Cohen E, Gemmill M, Guttmann A, Lunsky YJ, Pituch E, Saunders NR, Telner D, Vigod SN, Zwicker JD
Grant Type
Project Grant
Grant Amount
$439,876
Grant
2021 - 2022

Informing the pediatric mental health recovery plan: evaluating delays to diagnoses and changing characteristics of children and adolescents with new neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders in Ontario, Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Moran K, Saunders NR, Toulany A
Co-Investigators
Cohen E, Guttmann A, Kurdyak PA, Moore Hepburn C, Penner M, Stukel TA, Sundar P, Vigod SN
Grant Type
Operating Grant
Grant Amount
$75,000
Grant
2019 - 2022

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

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Dayan N, Velez M
Co-Investigators
Basso O, Fell DB, Joseph KS, Lanes A, Nguyen T, Ray JG, Vigod SN
Grant Type
Project Grant
Grant Amount
$332,776
Grant
2019 - 2021

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

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Chum A
Co-Investigators
Barker LC, Kennedy SH, O'Campo PJ, Vigod SN
Grant Type
Project grant
Grant Amount
$156,825
Grant
2017 - 2019

Chronic medical conditions and perinatal mental illness

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Brown HK
Co-Investigators
Guttman AS, Ray J, Vigod S
Grant Type
Project Grant
Grant Amount
$153,000
Grant
2017 - 2019

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

Granting Agency
University of Toronto Research and Innovation
Principal Investigators
Brown HK
Co-Investigators
Guttman AS, Ray J, Vigod S
Grant Type
Connaught New Researcher Award
Grant Amount
$35,000
Grant
2015 - 2022

Health outcomes of children with medical complexity

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Cohen E
Co-Investigators
Guttmann A, Ray J, To T, Vigod S
Grant Type
Foundation Scheme
Grant Amount
$997,731
Grant
2015 - 2017

Quality of care for schizophrenia: managing the comlpexity

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Kurdyak P
Co-Investigators
Alter D, Glazier R, Stukel T, Vigod S
Grant Type
Operating Grant
Grant Amount
$560,140
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Awards & Recognition

Awards & Recognition
08/01/2018

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.

Awards & Recognition
17/11/2016

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.

Awards & Recognition
22/07/2015

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.

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