Investigator, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Lady Davis Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Dr. G. Eric Jarvis is the Director of the Cultural Consultation Service, and Medical Director of the First Episode Psychosis Program, at the Jewish General Hospital. His research activities are closely linked to his clinical work and include the assessment, treatment, and follow up of psychosis in ethnic minority patients, and the effects of cultural consultation on psychiatric assessment and treatment.
Recent Publications
Jarvis, G.E., Toniolo, I., Ryder, A.G., Sessa, F., &Cremonese, C. (2011). “High Rates of Psychosis for Black Inpatients in Padua and Montreal: Different Contexts, Similar Findings.” Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 46:247-253.
Jarvis, G.E. (in press). Fragmentation and Reintegration: “Cultural Diversity and Mental Health Policy in Canada from 1982.” Submitted to TranSfaire& Culture June 20, 2011.
Adeponle, A., Thombs, B., Groleau, D., Jarvis, G.E., &Kirmayer, L.J. “Use of the Cultural Formulation to Resolve Uncertainty in the Diagnosis of Psychosis Among Ethnocultural Minority and Immigrant Patients.” Submitted to Psychiatric Services June, 2011 and currently under revision.