Kathryn Gill obtained her PhD in Psychology (1990) and conducted post-doctoral studies in Pharmacology at the Alcohol Research Centre (Supervisor: Dr. Dick Dietrich), and in Psychiatry at the Addiction Research and Treatment Services (Supervisor, Dr. Tom Crowley) at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Centre in Denver. While in Colorado she trained clinically in the treatment of substance dependence, and initiated a program of research on genetic vulnerability to substance dependence among Aboriginal peoples, and the treatment of opioid dependence.听 Currently she is an Associate Professor and member of the Division of Transcultural Psychiatry at 平特五不中, and the Director of Research in the Mental Health Mission (MHM) of the 平特五不中 Health Centre (MUHC). The Mental Health Mission encompasses all of the clinical services of the MUHC Psychiatry department, including the as well as Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis and Personality disorders programs at the Allan Memorial Institute. Additional administrative duties are performed as Co-leader of the Mental Illness and Addiction Axis at the of the MUHC. She is a member of the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research, and 鈥� a recently formed Quebec-based, funded network devoted to clinical research in primary care settings.
She divides her time between working at the Addictions Unit treating patients with drug- and alcohol dependence using a combination of group and individual CBT-oriented psychotherapy, teaching at 平特五不中 and conducting research. Current studies use both quantitative and qualitative methods to study knowledge translation within primary care, treatment outcomes for addiction, as well as pain sensitivity, hyperalgesia, and affective dysregulation among patients undergoing detoxification for both illicit and prescription opioid dependence.
kathryn.gill [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Selected Publications
Charney,聽D., Heath, L., Zikos, E., Palacios-Boix, J., &聽Gill, K. J. (2015). Poorer Outcomes with Citalopram Treatment for Alcohol Dependence: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. Published online: 24 JUL 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/acer.12802
Gill, K. J., Heath, L., Derevensky, J., & Torrie, J. (2015). The Social and Psychological Impacts of Gambling in the Cree Communities of Northern Qu茅bec, Journal of Gambling Studies. Published online: 31 May 2015| DOI:10.1007/s10899-015-9553-y
Maynard, S., Campbell, E., Boodhoo, K., Gauthier, G., Charney, D., Xenocostas, S., &聽Gill, K. J. (2015). From policy to practice: a look at the implementation of Qu茅bec鈥檚 frontline prevention program for substance use. Healthcare Policy, in press.
Gill, K. J., Maynard, S., Campbell, E., Boodhoo, K., Gauthier, G., Xenocostas, S., Charney, D., & Macaulay, A. C. (2014). Aper莽u de deux 茅tudes sur le programme du gouvernement du Qu茅bec pour la pr茅vention, la r茅duction et le traitemement des probl猫mes de d茅pendances. L'intervenant.
Gill, K. J., Campbell, E., Gauthier, G., Charney, D., Xenocostas, S., & Macaulay, A. (2014). From policy to practice: implementing frontline community health services for substance dependence. Implementation Science, 9:108.
Coupland, S., Fraser, R., Palacios-Boix, J., Charney,聽D. A., Negrete, J. C., Gill, K. J.听(2014). Illicit and Prescription Opiate Dependence: The Impact of Axis II Psychiatric Comorbidity on Detoxification Outcome, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, S10:008. doi: 10.4172/2155-6105.S10-008.
Mauger,聽S., Fraser, R., &聽Gill, K. J. (2014). Utilizing buprenorphine-naloxone to treat illicit and prescription opioid dependence, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 10:587-598. DOI:
Ducharme, S., Fraser, R., &聽Gill, K. J.听(2012). Update on the clinical use of Buprenorphine in opioid-related disorders. Canadian Family Physician, 58:37-41.
Gauthier, G., Palacios-Boix, J., Charney, D. A., Negrete, J. C., Pentney, H., &聽Gill, K. J. (2011)聽Comparison of Brief and Standard Interventions for Drug and Alcohol Dependence: Considerations for Primary Care Service Delivery.听Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health聽30: 93- 104.
Zikos E, &聽Gill, K. J.聽Charney D (2010) Personality disorders among alcoholic outpatients: Prevalence and course in treatment.听Canadian Journal of Psychiatry,聽55(2):65-73.
Charney D, Zikos E, &聽Gill, K. J. (2010) Early recovery from alcohol dependence: Factors that promote or impede abstinence.听聽J Substance Abuse Treatment, 38:42-50.
Gill,聽K. J.聽(2010). Les Impacts Sociaux et Psychologiques Des Jeux De Hazard Parmi Les Cries Du Qu茅bec.听(The Social and Psychological Impact of Gambling in the Cree Communities of Northern Qu茅bec).听Final report for the聽Programme des Actions concert茅es -聽Impacts socio茅conomiques des jeux de hasard et d'argent,聽Fonds qu茅becois de recherche sur la soci茅t茅 et la culture (FQRSC),聽Revised final report, July 30, 2010,聽Montr茅al,聽Qu茅bec.听
Nishikawa, M., Diksic, M., Sakai, Y., Kumano, H., Charney, D., Palacios-Boix, J., Negrete, J. C., &聽Gill,聽K. J. (2009) Alterations in brain serotonin synthesis in male alcoholics measured using positron emission tomography (PET).听Alcoholism: Clinical Experimental Research, 33:233-239.
Charney, D., Palacios-Boix, J.,聽Gill,聽K. J. (2007) Sexual abuse and the outcome of addiction treatment.听American Journal on Addictions, 16: 93-100.
Margolese, H. L., Tempier, R., Negrete, J. C., &聽Gill, K. J. (2006) A twelve-month prospective follow-up study of patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and substance abuse: changes in psychiatric symptoms and substance abuse.听Schizophrenia Research, 83: 65-75.
Charney, D., Palacios-Boix, J., Negrete, J.C., Dobkin, P.I., &聽Gill, K. J. (2005). The effects of concurrent depression and anxiety on addiction treatment outcome. Psychiatric Services, 56(8), 927-33.
Margolese, H., Malchy, L., Tempier, R., Negrete J.C., & Gill,聽K. J. (2004). Drug and alcohol use among patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder: Levels and consequences. Schizophrenia Research, 67, 157-166.
Igartua, K.,聽Gill, K. J., & Montoro, R. (2003). Internalised homophobia: a factor in depression, anxiety and suicide in the gay and lesbian population.听Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 22, 15-30.
Dobkin, P., De Civita, M., Paraherakis, A., & Gill聽K. J.听(2002). The role of social support in treatment retention and outcomes among outpatient adult substance abusers.听Addiction, 97, 347-356.
Jacobs, K., & Gill,聽K. J.听(2002). Substance abuse among urban Aboriginals: Association with a history of physical/sexual abuse,聽Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1(2), 19-39.
Jacobs, K., &聽Gill, K. J. (2002). Substance abuse in an urban Aboriginal population: Social, legal and psychological consequences,聽Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1(1), 7-25.
Charney, D., Paraherakis, A., &聽Gill, K. J.聽(2001). Integrated treatment of comorbid depression and substance use disorders.听Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 62, 672-677.
Paraherakis, A., Charney, D., &聽Gill, K. J.听(2001). Neuropsychological functioning in substance dependent patients. Substance Use and Misuse, 36 (3), 257-271.
Charney, D., Paraherakis, A., &聽Gill, K. J.聽(2000). The treatment of sedative-hypnotic dependence: evaluating clinical predictors of outcome.听Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 61, 190-195.
Paraherakis, A., Charney, D., Palacios-Boix, J., &聽Gill, K. J. (2000). An abstinence-oriented program for substance use disorders: Poorer outcomes associated with opiate dependence. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 45, 927-931.