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Peter Silverstone M.D.

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Peter Silverstone M.D. is a physician, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author focused on designing and implementing new solutions to prevent and treat mental health disorders. He is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta where he recently served as interim chair, as well as chief executive officer and founder of Zylorion Health.

Silverstone has been an active brain and pharmaceutical researcher in areas including psychopharmacology, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, imaging, depression in medically ill patients, e-mental health, and training police offers in de-escalation techniques. He has received research grants and funding from a wide source of agencies, including Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and other national and international bodies. He was continuously funded by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AIHS) and its predecessor Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) from 1994–2013 and he was the inaugural scientific director for the Strategic Clinical Network in Addiction and Mental Health (SCN) for Alberta Health Services.

He has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications which have been cited more than 3,500 times, viewed online more than 100,000 times, and he has an h-index for research of 46 on Google Scholar.

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