Special seminar: Effects of social control, coercion and motivation on early engagement in addiction treatment

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Location: At Room 721-201, Building 721, Tāmaki Innovation Campus

Speaker: Dr Cameron Wild, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean (Research) School of Public Health - University of Alberta.
Department: Centre for Mental Health Research

Dr Cameron Wild earned a PhD in Psychology from the University of Alberta, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Human Motivation Program at the University of Rochester, New York, and was a Scientist of the (former) Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario.

He is currently a Professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, where he directs the Addiction and Mental Health Research Laboratory.   His research interests span the etiology, prevention and treatment of addictions and include: problem drinking, injection drug use, smoking, comorbid addictions and mental disorders, treatment systems, and the social ecology of help-seeking.