Bernard Le Foll

VP, Research & Academics & Chief Scientific Officer at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care

Dr. Bernard Le Foll joined the Waypoint senior leadership team in February 2022 as Vice-President of Research and Academics and Chief Scientific Officer.

Dr. Le Foll is a clinician-scientist specializing in drug addiction. 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.