Manuela Ferrari

Dr. Manuela Ferrari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and a researcher at the Douglas Research Centre in Montreal. She is a recipient of a Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS) Chercheurs- Boursiers (Research Scholar Junior 1) and the Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL) New Investigator Start-up Grant. Dr. Ferrari is applying participatory design to online mental health interventions to improve access to care, treatment, and client engagement with services.

In collaboration with the youth, Dr. Ferrari created the LidicMind Studio, a state-of-the-art lab with technical equipment and infrastructure to conduct patient engagement research to co-design digital mental health interventions and solutions.

Dr. Ferrari’s research is supported and sponsored by provincial (FRQS) and federal (SSRCH, CIHR, NRC) programs, as well as industry and business partners (National Bank of Canada).