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Professor  |  Vice-Chair, Research

Peter Selby

DFCM

MBBS, CCFP, FCFP, MHSc, dipABAM, DFASAM

Peter Selby

peter.selby@camh.ca

Publications

Location
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Address
Nicotine Dependence Service , 1025 Queen Street West, 5th Floor, Toronto, Ontario Canada M6J 1H4
Research Interests
Addiction Medicine, Health Promotion, Knowledge Translation, Mental Health, Public Health, Electronic Medical Records, Disadvantaged Populations, Mixed Methods, Survey Methods, Quantitative Data Analysis, Qualitative Data Analysis, Cancer Care, Education Research, Chronic Diseases, Quality Improvement, Tobacco Dependence, Opioids
Accepting
Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows

Current academic appointment/faculty rank: Professor

Affiliations:  

  • Senior Scientist, Institute of Mental Health Policy Research, Campbell Family Research Institute 

  • Principal Investigator, Innovations, Nicotine and Tobacco, Research, Education, Programming, Implementation and Digital Health (INTREPID) Lab  

  • Senior Medical Consultant, CAMH 

  • Affiliate Scientist, KCNI, CAMH 

Biographical Information

Dr. Peter Selby is a Senior Scientist and Senior Medical Consultant at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and Principal Investigator of the INTREPID Lab, based at CAMH. He is Vice-Chair, Research for the Department of Family and Community Medicine and holds the Dr. Barnett & Beverley Giblon Professorship in Family Medicine, a University Named Professorship at the University of Toronto. He is also a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) at the University of Toronto. He is a full member of the School of Graduate Studies through the DLSPH and the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto.  

Dr. Selby is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and was the 2023 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Addiction Medicine in Canada from the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine. 

Areas of Research

His research focuses on innovative methods to understand and treat addictive behaviours and their comorbidities. He uses technology to combine clinical medicine and public health methods to scale up and test health interventions. His cohort of >440,000 treated smokers in Ontario is an example of this.  

He has received grant funding totaling over 100 million dollars from CIHR, NIH, and Ministry of Health and has published >280 peer reviewed publications. His most recent programme of research utilizes a Learning Health Systems approach to investigate how technology equitable collaborative care can enhance the delivery of evidence-based interventions to the patient while providing a more satisfying experience of care for patients and providers across systems.  

He has published 6 books (including 6 edited), is the author of more than 30 book chapters, and 43 research reports prepared for the government. Dr. Selby mentors residents and faculty from a variety of disciplines. The use of innovative methods to communicate messages makes Dr. Selby a sought after speaker for various topics including addictive disorders, motivational interviewing, and health behavior change at individual and system levels.