Rate My Professor Benedikt Fischer

Benedikt Fischer is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He also serves as Senior Scientist at the Institute of Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and holds the position of Chair in Addiction Psychiatry and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, with additional appointments at the Institute of Medical Sciences and the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies there, as well as in the Department of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. He is the NPI of the CIHR-funded Ontario CRISM Node Team. Previously, Fischer held a CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Research Chair and directed the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addictions at Simon Fraser University from 2008 to 2015. He obtained his PhD in Criminology from the University of Toronto in 1998 and began his academic career as a Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.