Toronto business leader, Larry Tanenbaum partners with CAMH and the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation to expand personalized medicine in Ontario

Pharmacogenetics (personalized medicine) will help doctors better prescribe medicine to patients who carry specific genes which put them at risk for serious side-effects.

Who:               Larry Tanenbaum, Chair of the Board for Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, CEO and Chair of the Kilmer Group and a Governor of the NHL,  NBA and MLS

The Honourable Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development and Innovation

Dr. James Kennedy, Director of the Neuroscience Research Department and Head of the Psychiatric Neurogenetics Section, CAMH

Dr. Catherine Zahn, President and CEO, CAMH

When:             Monday, May 7, 2010

                        9:00AM

Where:            CAMH Research Imaging Centre , 250 College Street, Basement

Tours of the pharmacogenetics laboratory will be available following the announcement

Media Contact: Michael Torres, Media Relations, CAMH; 416-595-6015

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The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world's leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental health. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.

CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre.

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