Dr. Teresa Bennett

Dr. Bennett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences at McMaster University. Dr. Bennett supervises high school, undergraduate and medical school students. As a Loran Scholar, she is actively involved in mentoring the next generation of award recipients. Dr. Bennett is the Co-Director (clinical lead) of MacART, and a child psychiatrist at McMaster Children’s Hospital. She is the McMaster lead investigator for the RILISE and TIDE multi-site randomized controlled trials of novel ASD medications. Dr. Bennett is working to implement the Family Check Up, a targeted prevention and intervention program addressing childhood emotional and behaviour problems.