• CREST.BD - Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial Issues in Bipolar Disorder
  • CREST.BD - Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial Issues in Bipolar Disorder
  • CREST.BD - Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial Issues in Bipolar Disorder
  • CREST.BD - Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial Issues in Bipolar Disorder
  • CREST.BD - Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial Issues in Bipolar Disorder
  • CREST.BD - Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial Issues in Bipolar Disorder
  • CREST.BD - Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial Issues in Bipolar Disorder

Jehannine Austin, PhD

Jehannine Austin Dr. Jehannine Austin is an Assistant Professor within the UBC Department of Psychiatry. She is a board certified genetic counselor with a PhD in Neuropsychiatric Genetics. Her research focuses on major psychiatric illnesses including BD – she is broadly intereested in the clinical implications of psychiatric genetics. Specifically, she has ongoing research into genetic and environmental contributors to postpartum episodes of mental illness, the impact of psychiatric genetics on mental illness stigma, and the outcome of providing genetic counseling to individuals with mental illness and their family members.

Dr. Austin has salary awards from the Michael Smith Foundation and CIHR, and her research program is supported by CIHR, the Vancouver Foundation, and the Women’s Health Research Institute.

Contact

Jehannine Austin
BC Mental Health & Addictions Research Institute
3rd Floor – 938 West 28th Ave.
Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4

Tel: 604-875-2000 ext. 5943
Fax: 604-875-3871
Email: jehannine.austin@ubc.ca

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