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Elizabeth Osuch is a Professor at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, holding the Rea Chair of Affective Disorders. She specializes in mood and trauma disorders, brief psychodynamic psychotherapy, and systems evaluation. Her clinical and research work focuses on early intervention for youth with mental health challenges through the First Episode Mood and Anxiety Program (FEMAP), which she founded in 2006 and has since expanded nationally and internationally.
- Education:
- Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine (Medical Degree)
- Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Health System (Residency)
- National Institute of Mental Health, Biological Psychiatry Branch (Research Fellowship)
Dr. Osuch's research spans two streams: biological psychiatry and health systems evaluation. In biological psychiatry, she uses functional brain imaging to identify fMRI biomarkers predicting medication responses in youth with depression, collaborates on translational studies of adolescent nicotine and cannabis exposure, and explores prebiotic treatments for psychiatric medication-induced weight gain. Her health systems evaluation work includes longitudinal analysis of the FEMAP model, cost-benefit comparisons with standard care, and implementation of measurement-based care platforms. She also leads a national AI chatbot project for mental health navigation in collaboration with the University of Alberta.
Her affiliations include cross-appointment to the Department of Medical Biophysics and membership in the Lawson Health Research Institute's Neuroimaging in Mental Health group. She collaborates internationally with academic and corporate partners in Australia and the U.S., and with colleagues at Georgia State University and the Canadian Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotics at Lawson.
