Zach Walsh

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Zach Walsh, PhD

Zach is a Professor in the UBC Department of Psychology. He attended the University of Winnipeg as an undergraduate, received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2008 from the Chicago Medical School/Rosalind Franklin University, and completed a clinical internship and a research fellowship at the Brown University Centre for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. Dr. Walsh is a registered clinical psychologist whose research has been supported by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Health Canada, BC Interior Health Authority, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, and the American Psychological Association. Zach sits on the advisory board for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Dr. Walsh was the Principal Investigator for the a clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of cannabis for chronic PTSD.

He has an upcoming clinical trial examining psilocybin-assisted therapy in opioid use disorder.

Curriculum Vitae


 For further enquiries please contact zachary.walsh@ubc.ca