Bernard Le Foll

Dr. Le Foll is a clinician-scientist specializing in drug addiction. He is the Vice President of Research & Academics and Chief Scientific Officer at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care. He is the Chair of Addiction Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and is a Professor in the departments of Psychiatry, Family and Community Medicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology, as well as the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Dr. Le Foll has practiced in the area of Addiction Medicine at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto since 2006. His multi-disciplinary research approach seeks to better understand the neurobiology of addiction and develop novel therapeutic strategies.

Dr. Le Foll leads CAMH’s Translational Addiction Research Laboratory within the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute. He obtained his PhD in Pharmacology at University of Paris Sud in France and has performed post-doctoral training in behavioral pharmacology and brain imaging within the intra-mural program of the National Institutes of Health.

Expertise Activities 

• Dr Le Foll is also acting as supervisor for Physicians that have to undergo supervision of their practices based on College Recommendation’s
• Dr Le Foll is providing Independent Medical Examinations for various Agencies notably related to addiction and mental health issues and how those issues impact abilities to work or to fulfill other obligations
• Dr Le Foll has been expert on various legal issues

Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online

• Dr Le Foll has been invited to around 80 interviews on TV, radio or new-papers (list available on request)