Peter Selby MD is the Chief of Addictions and Clinician-Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is a Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He is the executive director and creator of the TEACH project – a continuing education certificate program in Applied Counselling for Health with a focus on smoking cessation, through the University of Toronto. Dr. Selby’s research, as a Principal Investigator at the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, includes smoking cessation especially in smokers with co morbid conditions. As the Principal Investigator of the STOP study, he investigates effectiveness of NRT and counselling in different types of intervention settings. He is also the PI of CANADAPTT- a unique Canadian Smoking Cessation Guideline development and dissemination project. Dr. Selby also continues his clinical research with pregnant women who use substances and is the PI of a knowledge translation program (PREGNETS) to increase the adoption of evidence-based interventions with pregnant smokers.

He has received grant funding totaling over 60 million dollars from CIHR, NIH, Ministry of Health and has published 98 peer reviewed publications. He has published 4 books (including 3 edited), is the author of 24 book chapters, and 12 research reports prepared for the government. He co-chairs the Ministry of Health Cessation Task force. Dr. Selby mentors Fellows in Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry, junior investigators and medical students. He is a sought after speaker for health behaviour change presentations to the public and media interviews on addictive disorders. He has helped create a YouTube channel for health behavior change and is consulting to the Public Health Agency of Canada on the development of practical tools for primary care practitioners to promote healthy behaviours.