Brian MacVicar

Dr. Brian MacVicar holds the Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience at UBC and is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Previously, he was the co-director of the Centre for Brain Health.

Dr. MacVicar is also a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), and Fellow of The Canadian Academy for Health Sciences (FCAHS). In the past, Dr. MacVicar was the Director of the Leducq Foundation Transatlantic Network of Excellence, and the President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN), and was instrumental in guiding CAN to create a national neuroscience meeting and to establish a cohesive national identity for the neuroscience community.