Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
Paul Pavlidis is a professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He obtained his B.S. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology (neuroscience) at the University of California, Berkeley. He did postdoctoral work at Stanford University (under Daniel Madison) and Columbia University (under Eric Kandel and Steven Siegelbaum) on the molecular basis of synaptic plasticity. While at Columbia, he shifted his focus to computational biology and genomics, working with William Noble as a research scientist. Pavlidis was on the faculty of Columbia’s Department of Biomedical Informatics until moving to UBC.
Pavlidis is an expert in bioinformatics with a long track record of computational method and tool development in functional genomics. His laboratory’s primary research focus is on understanding the molecular basis of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.
In the previous ten years, Dr. Collet’s team developed the concept of “personally meaningful outcome” to assess each individual’s perceived utility of healthcare interventions. The second stream of research focuses on neuroplasticity and child development to evaluate physical activity’s effect on the development of children and their families’ wellbeing.
Jean-Paul Collet was trained as a pediatrician in Lyon (France) and got a Masters’s in Health Economics (Lyon University). He also received a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University.
