2021 CPA Annual Convention Plenary Addresses Registration
June 7th – 25th, 2021
Virtual Event
Please note that your registration will only provide access to the plenary address of your choice. Access to any of the other sessions being offered as part of the CPA’s virtual convention requires full registration. You can register for the convention at the following link: www.convention.cpa.ca/registration
Plenary Addresses
Dr. Kim Corace, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Presidential Address
CPA President, 2020-2021
Vice-President, Innovation & Transformation, Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, University of Ottawa
Title: Leading Change in the Mental Health Addiction System Through Innovation
Session 66905, Monday June 7, 1:00pm EDT
Dr. Theresa Tam, BMBS (UK), FRCPC
Plenary/Keynote Address
Chief Public Health Officer of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Title: A Conversation with Canada’s CPHO
Session 66918, Monday June 7, 1:30pm EDT
Dr. Steven Taylor, Ph.D., R.Psych.
Plenary/Keynote Address
Professor & Clinical Psychologist
Department of Psychiatry
University of British Columbia
Title: The Psychology of Pandemics
Session 66919, Monday June 7, 2:00pm EDT
Dr. Suzanne L. Stewart, Ph.D., C.Psych.
CPA Honorary President 2019 - 2020
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Homelessness and Life Transitions, University of Toronto
Title: TBD
Session 66916, Tuesday June 8, 1:00pm EDT
Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon, Ph.D.
CPA Honorary President 2020 - 2021
Title: Striving Towards Mental Health and Wellness – a Personal and Professional Journey
Session 66890, Friday June 11, 1:00pm EDT
Dr. Steven Pinker, Ph.D.
Plenary/Keynote Address
Johnstone Family Professor
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
Title: Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Session 66904, Monday June 14, 1:00pm EDT
Dr. Marylène Gagné, Ph.D.,
Plenary/Keynote Address
Professor, Future of Work Institute, Faculty of Business and Law,
Perth City Campus, Curtin University,
Perth, Australia
Title: Thriving at work in the digital age
Session 61714, Wednesday June 16, 10:00am EDT
Ms. Michelle Douglas
Plenary/Keynote Address
Executive Director of the LGBT Purge Fund
Title: Healing from Canada’s LGBT Purge
Session 66904, Thursday June 24, 1:00pm EDT