Dr. Richard Tremblay presented his keynote address– From Forensic Mental Health to Infant Mental Health: Back to the Future— at the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS) held in Montreal, Canada from June 25-27, 2019.
International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS) Keynote Address
About Dr. Richard Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology at the University of Montreal, Emeritus Professor of Public Health at University College Dublin (Ireland), and director of the Centre of Excellence on Early Childhood Development. Over the past thirty-five years he initiated five large scale longitudinal-experimental studies with an integrated bio-psycho-social approach to unravel the early development of violent behavior and to identify effective early preventive interventions. He received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the American Society of Criminology Sellin-Glueck Prize for international research in criminology, the Laufer Award from the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for his research on prevention of antisocial behavior with children, the Joan McCord prize from the Academy of Experimental Criminology and the Scott Award for lifetime contributions to research on aggression from the International Society for Research on Aggression. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Finally, he was a member of the team of professionals when the Philippe Pinel Institute opened in 1970.
