Health Project

Location:

Brantford, ON, Canada

Posted:

March 24, 2014

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Resume:

Education, Training and Certification

Crucial Conversations: Fostering Dialogue at all Levels of Your

Organization (2013)

VitalSmarts, Provo, Utah, USA

Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical

Manual (2012)

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON,

Canada

Training Enhancement in Applied Cessation Counseling and Health

(2012)

University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada

Regulatory Documentation and Research Binder (2012)

CAMH, Toronto, ON, Canada

Good Clinical Practice (2012)

Health Canada

TCPS-2: Ethical Conduct for Research Including Humans (2012)

Health Canada

Medical Devices (2012)

Health Canada

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Biopsychology (2011)

CAMH, Toronto, ON, Canada

Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience (2007)

McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

M.A. in Psychology (1998)

Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Hon.B.Sc. in Psychology (1996)

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Awards

Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2010)

CAMH, Department of Neuroscience, Toronto, ON, Canada

Travel Award (2010)

University of Toronto, Neuroscience Program, Toronto, ON, Canada

Graduate Scholarship (1996)

Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Psychology, Waterloo,

ON, Canada

Hon.B.Sc. Awarded with Distinction (1996)

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Employment

Psychology and Neuroscience Consultant and Editor (Dec 2103-Current)

Cactus Communications Inc., Trevose, PA, USA

Research Coordinator (Mar 2012-Dec 2013)

CAMH, Toronto, ON, Canada

Course Coordinator (2012-Current)

University of Toronto, Department of Psychology, Toronto,

ON, Canada

Sessional Professor, Drugs and Behaviour (2012)

Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Psychology, Brantford,

ON, Canada

Sessional Professor, Introduction to Learning and Behaviour (2011)

Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Psychology, Waterloo,

ON, Canada

Post-Doctoral Fellow (2007-2011)

CAMH, Department of Neuroscience, Biopsychology and Neuroimaging

Sections,

Toronto, ON, Canada

Sessional Professor, Behavioural Disorders (2006)

Ryerson University, Department of Psychology, Toronto, ON,

Canada

Sessional Professor, Abnormal Psychology - Major Disorders (2006)

McMaster University, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience,

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Sessional Professor, Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology (2005)

McMaster University, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience,

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer, Fundamentals of Abnormal

Psychology; Abnormal Psychology - Major Disorders; Fundamentals of

Neuroscience; Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; Animal Learning and

Behaviour; Social Psychology (2000-2005)

McMaster University, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience,

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Lab Administrator and Technician (2001-2006)

McMaster University, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience,

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Tutorial Instructor, Health Statistics (2000)

McMaster University, Department of Health Sciences, Hamilton,

ON, Canada

Research Assistant (1998-2000)

University of Western Ontario, Department of Neuroscience,

London, ON, Canada

Laboratory Instructor, Biology (1998-2000)

University of Western Ontario, Department of Neuroscience,

London, ON, Canada

Laboratory Instructor, Learning and Behaviour; Psychobiology (1996-

1998)

Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Psychology, Waterloo,

ON, Canada

Research Assistant (1996-1998)

Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Psychology, Waterloo,

ON, Canada

Research Assistant (1995)

University of Toronto, Department of Psychology, Toronto, ON,

Canada

Professional Memberships

Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CCNP) Canadian

Neuroscience Association (CAN)

Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Schizophrenia Research Society (SRS)

Committees and Boards (1997-Current)

Board of Directors (2010-Current)

St. Leonard's Community Services, Brantford, ON, Canada

Joint Health and Safety Committee (2004-2006)

McMaster University, Dept of Psychology and Neuroscience,

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Animal Care Committee (1997-1998)

Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Psychology, Waterloo, ON,

Canada

Clinical Practicum (1995-2013)

Clinical Units (Mar 2012- Dec 2013)

Addictions, Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Psychosis and

Schizophrenia, Geriatric Mental Health, Child Youth & Family

Services, Women's Services, Forensics, Dual Diagnosis, Eating

Disorders, Sexual/Gender Disorders, Concurrent and Complex

Mental Illness.

CAMH, Toronto, ON, Canada

First Episode Psychosis Unit (2007-2008)

CAMH, Toronto, ON, Canada

Psychiatry Division (1995)

Northwestern General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

Psychophathology Out-Patient Rehabilitative Centre (1995)

Centenary Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

Clinical Assessment (Mar 2012 - Dec 2013)

SCID (Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic &

Statistical Manual of Disorders)

Evaluation, assessment, and diagnosis of mood disorders, anxiety

disorders, substance abuse and dependence, alcohol abuse and

dependence, psychotic disorders, eating disorders, somatoform

disorders, and adjustment disorders.

Assessment Questionnaires and Personality Inventories

Evaluation and assessment of mood, alcohol dependency, nicotine

dependency, drug craving, and personality.

Pre-Clinical Research (1996-2009)

. The effects of cholinergic stimulation on rewarding brain

stimulation (rodent model, stereotaxic surgery, electrophysiology)

. The effects of dopaminergic and cholinergic modulation on numerical

and temporal cognition (rodent and pigeon models, behavioural

pharmacology)

. The effects of dopaminergic modulation on prefrontal cortex

synaptic plasticity (rodent model, stereotaxic surgery,

electrophysiology, behavioural pharmacology)

. The effects of dopaminergic stabilizers on conditioned reward and

behavioural sensitization (rodent model, behavioural pharmacology,

locomotor sensitization)

Clinical Research (Mar 2011 - Dec 2013)

transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and Smoking Cessation:

This project delivers the current standard treatment for smoking

cessation (cognitive behavioural therapy / CBT plus nicotine patch)

combined with the administration of tDCS to the dorsolateral

prefrontal cortex or orbitofrontal cortex. The neuronal plasticity

induced by tDCS is hypothesized to consolidate what is learned in CBT

and functionally translate into greater quit outcomes. I am

responsible for experimental design, participant recruitment,

participant informed consent, clinical assessment, administration of

tDCS, administration of clinical questionnaires and cognitive tasks,

participant follow-up, data collection and organization, adverse event

monitoring, all regulatory documentation, and statistical analysis.

(CAMH, Toronto, ON, Canada)

Project/Program Oversight/Leadership and Knowledge Translation (Mar 2012 -

Dec 2013)

Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll - Development and delivery of an

undergraduate capstone course offered to Psychology Majors through the

Department of Psychology. The course includes neuroscientific and

psychosocial topics, as well as an overview of cognitive-behavioural

schemas and pharmacological approaches used to conceptualize and treat

addictions. The health, social, legal and ethical consequences of

addiction are reviewed within a biopsychosocial framework used to

develop a model that understands addiction as a developmental and

chronic disorder of consumption with broader societal implications.

(University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada)

Journal Club - Presentation and discussion of addiction and mental

health related literature to research, clinical, teaching, knowledge

translation, and student populations. (CAMH, Toronto, ON, Canada)

Pregnets (Prevention of Gestational and Neonatal Exposure to Tobacco

Smoke) - Improving the health of mothers and their babies by offering

information, resources and support to pregnant and postpartum women

and their health care providers. (CAMH, Toronto, ON, Canada)

Quit360 - Development of a pilot program to build on existing smoking

cessation infrastructure within community pharmacies by providing

additional training and coaching via a multi-faceted approach that

includes ongoing training and coaching support for pharmacists. (CAMH,

Toronto, ON, Canada)

Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Literature Review - A

comprehensive review of smoking cessation treatment and serious mental

illness and addiction (monopolar depression, bipolar disorder,

anxiety, schizophrenia, and substance abuse). (CAMH, Toronto, ON,

Canada)

transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) - Development,

implementation, and management of a Nordocs Technologies Inc.-

sponsored and Ontario Brain Institute (OBI)-funded research project.

This includes participant recruitment, compilation of Case Report

Forms, Research Binder compilation, sponsor-funder-Health Canada

liaising, development of standard operating procedures and protocols,

training clinical and research staff, and developing project time-

lines. (CAMH, Toronto, ON, Canada)

Supervision and Management (2001-2013)

. Study manager and facilitator

. Graduate student training and supervision

. Research project staff training and supervision

Operating Plans, Budgets and Funding Initiatives (2000-2013)

. Yearly involvement in (Canadian Institute for Health Research)

(CIHR) funding project development and grant submission

. Management of research project budgets

Selected Publications in Refereed Journals (n e Coppa)

Featherstone, R.E., Burton, C.L., Coppa-Hopman, R.D., Rizos, Z.,

Sinyard, J., Kapur, S., Fletcher, P.J. (2009). Gestational treatment with

methylazoxymethanol (MAM) that disrupts hippocampal-dependent memory does

not alter behavioural response to cocaine. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and

Behavior, 93(4): 382-90.

Coppa-Hopman, R.D., Galle, J., and Pimkine, D. (2009) D1 receptor

antagonist-induced long- term depression in the medial prefrontal cortex,

in vivo: An animal model of psychiatric hypofrontality. Journal of

Psychopharmacology, 23(6): 672-685.

Santi, A. and Coppa, R. (2001) Effects of the dopamine D2 agonist

quinpirole on time and number processing in rats. Pharmacology,

Biochemistry, and Behaviour, 68, 147-155.

Selected Conference Participation (n e Coppa)