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Program Cards
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Dr. Elnaz Moghimi
PhD
Research Scientist
Research Interests
Digital Mental Health TreatmentsEquityIntimate Partner ViolencePatient-Oriented ResearchYouth Mental Health
Dr. Elnaz Moghimi joined Waypoint Research Institute as a research scientist in early 2023. A health scientist by training, Elnaz holds a PhD in Kinesiology and Health Science and obtained two concurrent diplomas in Neuroscience and Quantitative Methods from York University. Her graduate work focused on compulsive overeating, eHealth interventions, and the treatment experiences of women with binge eating disorder.
Elnaz was also affiliated with York University’s Teaching Commons and received multiple certifications in teaching and peer leadership. Subsequent to her PhD, she joined Queen’s University Online Psychotherapy Lab, where she focused on online mental health interventions in a myriad of populations. Under the supervision of Dr. Nazanin Alavi, she co-led a CIHR-funded study investigating the efficacy of online psychotherapy in Canadian correctional workers. Her team also received CIHR funding to explore the mental health challenges and care needs of post-secondary students. Outside academia, Elnaz enjoys learning and engaging in health coaching, nutrition, and fitness.
Publications
Dr. Hilton is the Senior Research Scientist at Waypoint and a Professor of Psychiatry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She is also a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. Since joining Waypoint over 30 years ago, she has been both a front-line clinician and a full-time researcher. Dr. Hilton conducts research that pertains to justice-involved individuals in the criminal justice and psychiatric systems, and the professionals who provide services for them. She has conducted influential research in the areas of domestic violence, risk assessment, risk communication, and more recently the physical health and psychological wellbeing of both patients and staff at psychiatric hospitals. She was the lead of the research team that created the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA). She is principal investigator on SSHRC-funded research to examine standardized risk assessment and coercive control in domestic violence.
Another major research project follows a cohort of men from admission through four years of care in forensic psychiatry, to explore how their histories and adjustment in the hospital are related to aggressive behaviour and measures of success. She was also the lead of a research and knowledge translation project on Trauma among Psychiatric Workers, a co-investigator on a SSHRC-funded project, led by Sandy Jung, MacEwan University, to examine domestic violence risk in threat assessment and management, and a collaborator in the SSHRC-funded Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations. Dr. Hilton earned her PhD in Psychology at the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Southampton.
Publications
Google Scholar Publications
Kudos Publications and Research Summaries
Student / Volunteer Opportunities
Dr. Hilton welcomes research interns, graduate students, and co-op placement students. She can supervise thesis work for graduate students in research or clinical programs and serve as an external examiner.
Dr. Andrea Waddell
MEd, MD, FRCPC
Medical Director, Clinical Informatics & Quality Standards
Research Interests
Adult PsychiatryPatient SafetyPsychosocial Interventions
Dr. Waddell is the Medical Director for Clinical Informatics & Quality Standards at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care and the co-lead of Psy-QIS, the Department’s hub for Quality Innovation and Safety. She completed her medical training in 2003 and specialty training in Psychiatry both at the University of Toronto. She completed a Master’s degree at OISE in Theory & Policy Studies and completed a nationally funded study of using video for resident supervision long before Zoom existed! After almost a decade leading the inpatient unit at the University Health Network, she completed advanced training in Quality Improvement and moved to CAMH to practice, teach and support quality improvement and patient safety work in mental health before moving to Waypoint in 2022.
Dr. Waddell’s work focuses on supporting capacity building in quality improvement through the teaching and mentorship of residents, fellows and faculty members as well as funded research examining patient safety in acute mental health services. She sits on a number of regional and national advisory panels related to health service delivery and clinical informatics.
Publications
Student / Volunteer Opportunities
Dr. Waddell is currently accepting students for research projects.
Kristy Allen
BA (Hons), MPH
Knowledge Translation & Implementation Coordinator
Research Interests
Patient-Oriented ResearchYouth Mental Health
Kristy Allen (she/her) holds an Honours BA in Psychology and a minor in Family & Child Studies from the University of Guelph. In 2020, she completed her Masters of Public Health degree with a concentration in Social Inequities in Health from Simon Fraser University. In addition, she has obtained certificates in Knowledge Mobilization from the University of Guelph, and in Family Engagement in Research (FER) & Leadership in FER from McMaster University. She has previously held community engagement and knowledge translation roles with Frayme and the Canadian Mental Health Association- BC Division.
Kristy is passionate about knowledge mobilization and community engagement as drivers of implementation and sustainability within research, programs, and services. Through her personal experiences, she advocates for patients & families to be key stakeholders in mental health system transformation. Outside of work, Kristy enjoys doing anything outside, swimming, and reading.
Meghan Weissflog is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Waypoint Research Institute and is currently involved with coordinating a multi-site research collaboration with law enforcement regarding the standardization of IPV risk communication. She holds an MA and PhD in Psychology with a specialization in Behavioural Neuroscience from Brock University, where her doctoral research focused on the application of electrophysiological methodology to the study of psychopathic personality traits as they relate to individual differences in emotion recognition and visually driven early attentional processes.
Prior to beginning at WRI in March 2022, Meghan completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Brock University where she implemented and managed research projects exploring the relation between personality traits and individual differences in information processing.