Dr. Scott Patten obtained an MD from the University of Alberta in 1986, and subsequently completed an FRCP(C) in psychiatry (1991) and a PhD in epidemiology (1994) at the University of Calgary. He is a professor in the department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, where he holds the Cuthbertson and Fischer Chair in Pediatric Mental Health. He has over 20 years experience teaching epidemiology and supervising graduate students. As a researcher, he has published more than 500 scientific papers and is the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.