Position    Psychiatrist

Phone      416-535-8501 Ext. 4953
Email       umesh_jain@camh.net

 

Dr. Umesh Jain is a staff psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Child, Youth and Family Service) and the Hospital for Sick Children (Adolescent ADHD-YEARS study). He attended medical school at Dalhousie University in Halifax and studied psychiatry, and child psychiatry at both Dalhousie and the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his PhD in Toronto in  Medical Sciences.  Dr. Jain is a nationally recognized scientist in the fields of ADHD, children/adolescents impulsivity, and psychopharmacology with 27 peer-reviewed publications and over 200 presentations, papers and posters.  Dr. Jain has been involved with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) as a member of their Scientific Board and Local Chairperson of their meetings in Toronto (1996 and 2005).  He has also been involved with the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CACAP) as a member and chair of their scientific program (1996-1999), and as a member of their National Executive Committee since 2003.  In 2003, he helped create The Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance (CADDRA), an affiliation of all Canadian specialists practicing in the ADHD arena. He lives in Toronto with his four children and his wife, a pediatrician.