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Amal Abdel-Baki

ResearcherPsychiatryMcGill University

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Amal Abdel-Baki

Researcher

Psychiatry

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
36 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2019.

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Data Collection Learning Health System Mental Health Services Youth Mental Health Integrated Youth Services Mental Health Standards, Practices, Principles Values

Latest papers

An appraisal of practice guidelines for early intervention services for psychosis: Using AGREE II (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation) to enhance the quality and trustworthiness of guidelines in the future.
Schizophrenia research · 2026
Virtual Reality-Assisted Therapy Compared to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients With Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: Assessor-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR mental health · 2026
Satisfaction With Youth Mental Health Services in Diverse Settings: Results From a Pan-Canadian Initiative.
Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2026

All 74 publications

Latest funding

Working together towards better life conditions and mental healthcare for diverse communities: A multi-stakeholder event to operationalize research results on social determinants of psychosis.
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$17,000
(Re)envisioning and reinforcing data and learning health system capacities to advance services, research and policy for youth in Quebec and beyond
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$924,967
A consensus forum to co-design recommendations to increase youth engagement with Learning Health Systems
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$15,000

All 14 grants and awards

74 publications.

An appraisal of practice guidelines for early intervention services for psychosis: Using AGREE II (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation) to enhance the quality and trustworthiness of guidelines in the future.

Ferrari M, Pawliuk N, Shah J, Abdel-Baki A, Tibbo P, Addington D, Roy MA, Joober R, MacDonald K, Iyer SN

Schizophrenia research2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2026.06.005 PMID: 42418951

Virtual Reality-Assisted Therapy Compared to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients With Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: Assessor-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.

Beaudoin M, Potvin S, Giguère S, Giguère CÉ, Aardema F, Abdel-Baki A, De Benedictis L, Lipp O, Lalonde P, Stip E, Fortier A, Phraxayavong K, Dumais A

JMIR mental health2026

DOI: 10.2196/106791 PMID: 42748056

Satisfaction With Youth Mental Health Services in Diverse Settings: Results From a Pan-Canadian Initiative.

Bedirian J, Cowan T, Noël V, Lal S, Joober R, Shah J, Abdel-Baki A, Fuhrer R, Boksa P, Andersson N, MacDonald K, Morin CA, Levasseur MA, Vallianatos H, Augustine L, Friese K, Godin I, Urichuk L, Hutt-MacLeod D, Plourde V, Rabbitskin N, Reaume-Zimmer P, Rousseau C, Malla A, Iyer SN

Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)2026

DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.20250441 PMID: 41992106

Gaming Disorder in First Episode Psychosis: Prevalence and Impact on Symptomatology and Functioning in a Prospective Cohort Study.

Huot-Lavoie M, Corbeil O, Béchard L, Jomphe V, L'Heureux S, Abdel-Baki A, Essiambre AM, Thériault C, Salvini I, Roy O, Brodeur S, Rodriguez Cervantes PM, Desrosiers WJ, Giroux I, Dufour M, Khazaal Y, Demers MF, Roy MA

Schizophrenia bulletin2026

DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbaf232 PMID: 41863358

Identifying Factors Influencing the Implementation of Early Intervention Services for Psychosis in Quebec, Canada: A Qualitative Study of Health Care Providers' Perspectives.

Bertulies-Esposito B, Pires de Oliveira Padilha P, Valle R, Iyer SN, Abdel-Baki A

Early intervention in psychiatry2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/eip.70104 PMID: 41036700

Factors shaping the decision-making process to continue or discontinue antipsychotics: exploratory qualitative study of 12 individuals in remission from first-episode psychosis.

Béchard L, Anderson E, Corbeil O, Huot-Lavoie M, Brodeur S, Abdel-Baki A, Massé C, Gabriel-Courval M, Coté MÈ, LeBlanc A, Roy MA, Demers MF, Lauzier S

BJPsych open2025

DOI: 10.1192/bjo.2025.10817 PMID: 40904211

Understanding the game experiences and mental health of youth: protocol for the Game-in-Action Quebec cohort study.

Paquin V, Raugh I, Davies M, Lepage M, Lavigne KM, Dion J, Abdel-Baki A, Shah JL, Iyer SN, Ferrari M

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-103685 PMID: 40889981

Narratives in context: a cellphilm study of the social experiences of persons with psychosis from different ethnic, racial and migrant backgrounds.

Xavier SM, Both A, Ferrari M, Abdel-Baki A, Serres S, van den Bogerd N, Lemmers-Jansen I, van der Ven E, Iyer SN

Arts & health2025

DOI: 10.1080/17533015.2025.2551538 PMID: 40878786

Addressing the complex needs of homeless youth with early psychosis and comorbid substance use: a naturalistic longitudinal study of 10 years' experience with EQIIP SOL's specialized outreach service.

Todesco B, Padilha PPO, Rabouin D, Ouellet-Plamondon C, Jutras-Aswad D, Abdel-Baki A

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s00127-025-02875-7 PMID: 40259034

Pathways to early intervention services involving police or ambulance and disengagement rates in racialized and immigrant youth compared to the White majority.

Boujelben I, D'Andrea G, Ouellet-Plamondon C, Artaud L, Villeneuve M, Shah J, Iyer SN, Abdel-Baki A

Schizophrenia research2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2025.04.021 PMID: 40286435

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Amal Abdel-Baki

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An appraisal of practice guidelines for early intervention services for psychosis: Using AGREE II (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation) to enhance the quality and trustworthiness of guidelines in the future.

Virtual Reality-Assisted Therapy Compared to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients With Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: Assessor-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.

Satisfaction With Youth Mental Health Services in Diverse Settings: Results From a Pan-Canadian Initiative.

Gaming Disorder in First Episode Psychosis: Prevalence and Impact on Symptomatology and Functioning in a Prospective Cohort Study.

Identifying Factors Influencing the Implementation of Early Intervention Services for Psychosis in Quebec, Canada: A Qualitative Study of Health Care Providers' Perspectives.

Factors shaping the decision-making process to continue or discontinue antipsychotics: exploratory qualitative study of 12 individuals in remission from first-episode psychosis.

Understanding the game experiences and mental health of youth: protocol for the Game-in-Action Quebec cohort study.

Narratives in context: a cellphilm study of the social experiences of persons with psychosis from different ethnic, racial and migrant backgrounds.

Addressing the complex needs of homeless youth with early psychosis and comorbid substance use: a naturalistic longitudinal study of 10 years' experience with EQIIP SOL's specialized outreach service.

Pathways to early intervention services involving police or ambulance and disengagement rates in racialized and immigrant youth compared to the White majority.

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