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Jai Shah

ResearcherFamily MedicineMcGill University

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Jai Shah

Researcher

Family Medicine

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.
53 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 7 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 9 research grants (9 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2020.

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Research

Youth Mental Health Deliberative Dialogue Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping Gender Violence Participatory Research Youth Suicide Psychosis Participatory Visual Methods

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
Accelerated, Neuronavigated Neuromodulation for Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.
Sante mentale au Quebec · 2026
Long-Term Trajectories of Multidimensional Outcomes in Psychosis Following Early Intervention During the Critical Period: The PEPP-Montreal 10+ Study Protocol.
Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026

All 76 publications

Latest funding

Understanding Lived Experience and System Perspectives to Improve Psychosis Care in Peru
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$1,347,261
The impact of restrictions on smartphone use in schools on adolescent mental health and well-being: international evidence from a multi-methods policy analysis
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$699,976
SAHARA: Supporting Academic Health And Resilience Among South Asian Students in Canada
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$428,400

All 31 grants and awards

76 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

Accelerated, Neuronavigated Neuromodulation for Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.

Choucroun A, Roy O, Potvin S, Palaniyappan L, Zeramdini N, Aiyaar A, Picard K, Zanjani S, Parekh D, Markessinis M, Friesen T, Zamorano T, Diaconescu A, Lepage M, Powers A, Shah J, Zavaglia E, Benrimoh D

Sante mentale au Quebec2026

PMID: 42550441

Long-Term Trajectories of Multidimensional Outcomes in Psychosis Following Early Intervention During the Critical Period: The PEPP-Montreal 10+ Study Protocol.

Percie du Sert O, Ghanem J, McGrory V, Anselmo K, Anderson KK, Iyer S, Joober R, Shah J, Malla A, Lepage M

Early intervention in psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1111/eip.70258 PMID: 42778287

The Readability of Patient-Reported Measures in Early Psychosis.

Abou Farhat M, Zamani N, Bajaj S, Pawliuk N, Kaur N, Shah J, Ferrari M, Iyer SN

Schizophrenia bulletin2026

DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbag018 PMID: 42054343

Processing Speed and Verbal Learning Ability as Predictors of Assessor-Rated and Ecological Momentary Assessment Self-Reported Functioning: Findings from AMP SCZ.

Pratt DN, Lewandowski KE, Hacker H, Kambeitz-Ilankovic L, Yassin W, Shah J, Allott K, Stone WS, Addington J, Yung AR, Williams TF, Cowan HR, He S, Schiffman J, Carrión RE, Torous J, Fusar-Poli P, Lepage M, Kim SW, Verma S, Nordentoft M, Glenthøj LB, Smesny S, Conus P, Broome MR, Hui CLM, Sabb FW, Perkins DO, Powers AR, Calkins ME, Wolf DH, Corcoran CM, Horton LE, Ellman LM, Strauss GP, Mamah D, Pearlson GD, Choi J, Kim M, Kambeitz J, Gaspar PA, Mathalon DH, Cadenhead KS, Perez J, Arango C, Koutsouleris N, Silverstein S, Breitborde NJK, Bouix S, Baker JT, Kapur T, Pasternak O, Kahn RS, Cecchi G, Coleman MJ, Kane JM, McGorry PD, Bearden CE, Nelson B, Shenton ME, Woods SW, Mittal VA

Schizophrenia bulletin2026

DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbag056 PMID: 42544492

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

Guidelines for the prevention of psychosis from the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) and EPI Canada

Solmi M, Correll CU, Boldrini T, Addington JM, Barbezat E, Bassetto S, Bechdolf A, Devoe D, Firth J, Fusar-Poli P

World Journal of Biological Psychiatry20261 citations

DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2026.2651738

CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 ultrarapid metabolisms are associated with suicide attempts in schizophrenia.

Korchia T, Faugere M, Tastevin M, Quaranta S, Guilhaumou R, Blin O, Lereclus A, Joober R, Shah J, Palaniyappan L, Lançon C, Fond G, Richieri R

L'Encephale2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.encep.2024.09.003 PMID: 39547922

Longitudinal clinical outcomes based on cognitive and hippocampal clusters of first episode psychosis.

Ronat LA, Raucher-Chéné D, Lavigne KM, Chakravarty M, Joober R, Malla A, Shah J, Lepage M

Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2025.111392 PMID: 40320230

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 research2025

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

Understanding Lived Experience and System Perspectives to Improve Psychosis Care in Peru

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Iyer, Srividya N; Caballero, July; Claux, Juan A; Cutipé Cárdenas, Yuri L; PINAO SUAREZ, MARGARITA Y

Keywords: Community Mental Health Care; Global Health; Global Mental Health; Health System Coverage; Lived Experience; Mental Health Services; Peru; Psychosis; Schizophrenia; Tanahashi Framework

$1,347,261

The impact of restrictions on smartphone use in schools on adolescent mental health and well-being: international evidence from a multi-methods policy analysis

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Nandi, Arijit; Harper, Samuel; Paquin, Vincent

Keywords: Adolescent Health; Equity; Evaluation; Gender; Mental Health And Well-Being; Online Gaming; Policy; School; Smartphones/Social Media; Social Determinants

$699,976

SAHARA: Supporting Academic Health And Resilience Among South Asian Students in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Banerjee, Ananya T

Keywords: Community-Based Participatory Action Research; Health Equity; Mental Health; Poor Health; Qualitative Methods; South Asian University Students; Strength And Resilience

$428,400

SNT-PSY: Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy in Psychosis

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research - General iCT

Principal investigators: Benrimoh, David A; Palaniyappan, Lena K

Keywords: Psychosis; Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; Rtms Treatment

$200,000

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.

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Xavier, Salomé; Iyer, Srividya N

Keywords: Arts-Based Research; Equity, Diversity And Inclusion; Immigrants And Ethnic Minorities; Life Narratives; Lived Experiences; Mental Health Services; Minoritized Populations; Population Health; Psychosis; Social Determinants

$17,000

(Re)envisioning and reinforcing data and learning health system capacities to advance services, research and policy for youth in Quebec and beyond

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Other: IYS-Net Phase 2 - Provincial Stream Grants

Principal investigators: Iyer, Srividya N; Roy, Isabelle; Abdel-Baki, Amal M; Bentayeb, Naïma; Brodeur, Sébastien; Ferrari, Manuela; Goyette, Martin; Menear, Matthew; Pullen Sansfaçon, Annie M

Keywords: Data Collection; Learning Health System; Mental Health Services; Youth Mental Health

$924,967

A consensus forum to co-design recommendations to increase youth engagement with Learning Health Systems

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Cowan, Tovah M; Ferrari, Manuela; Iyer, Srividya N

Keywords: Consensus Forum; Early Intervention For Psychosis; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Integrated Youth Services; Learning Health Systems; Nominal Group Technique; Patient Engaged Research; Patient Reported Outcome And Experience Measures; Self-Reported Measures; Youth Mental Health

$15,000

Youth co-design prevention of gendered personal and interpersonal violence in Botswana

Principal investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Cockcroft, Anne; Andersson, Neil; Mitchell, Claudia; Ng'ombe, Kabo; Sarmiento, Ivan; Shah, Jai; Thabane, Lehana

Keywords: Deliberative Dialogue; Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping; Gender Violence; Participatory Research; Participatory Visual Methods; Youth Mental Health; Youth Suicide

$1,113,076

Early Intervention in Psychosis: Looking Back at the Future

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Ferrari, Manuela

Keywords: Early Intervention; Knowledge Dissemination; Psychosis

$10,000

A learning health system to monitor, guide and advance quality of care, research and policy within Aire ouverte, Quebec's integrated youth services initiative

Co-investigatorCIHR2023IYS-Net Phase 1: Building Learning Health System Net. - Stream 1 Network Grants

Principal investigators: Iyer, Srividya N; Macé, Christian; Abdel-Baki, Amal M; Bentayeb, Naïma; Ferrari, Manuela; Goyette, Martin; Menear, Matthew

Keywords: Integrated Youth Services; Mental Health; Standards, Practices, Principles; Values

$1,236,610

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Jai Shah

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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.

Accelerated, Neuronavigated Neuromodulation for Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.

Long-Term Trajectories of Multidimensional Outcomes in Psychosis Following Early Intervention During the Critical Period: The PEPP-Montreal 10+ Study Protocol.

The Readability of Patient-Reported Measures in Early Psychosis.

Processing Speed and Verbal Learning Ability as Predictors of Assessor-Rated and Ecological Momentary Assessment Self-Reported Functioning: Findings from AMP SCZ.

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

Guidelines for the prevention of psychosis from the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) and EPI Canada

CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 ultrarapid metabolisms are associated with suicide attempts in schizophrenia.

Longitudinal clinical outcomes based on cognitive and hippocampal clusters of first episode psychosis.

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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Martin Lepage

Manuela Ferrari

Shalini Lal

David Benrimoh

Shalini Lal

Patricia Boksa

Rebecca Fuhrer

Neil Andersson

Amal Abdel-Baki

Amal Abdel-Baki

Lena Palaniyappan

Norbert Schmitz

Lena Palaniyappan

Mallar Chakravarty

Suzanne King

Ross Norman

Bratislav Misic

Meranda Nakhla

Neil Andersson

Meranda Nakhla

Romina Mizrahi

Norma Rabbitskin

Liana Urichuk

Elham Rahme

Amy Salmon

Melissa Park

Tania Lecomte

Claudia Mitchell

Thomas Hastings