Dr. Peter Cornish
Associate Professor and Former Director of the Student Wellness and Counselling Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dr. Peter Cornish is currently enjoying an 18-month sabbatical in Saskatoon after serving in the Director position at Memorial University of Newfoundland since 2003. Memorial’s Student Wellness and Counselling Centre is an academic and service unit with a focus on interprofessional wellness programming, training, and research. His clinical and research interests include online mental health, stepped care treatments, mental health service innovations, peer support, health care system transformation, change management, interprofessional team functioning, and group dynamics. Over the past four years, he has provided consultation and on-site training on his Stepped Care 2.0 Model to over 150 organizations across North America. He is the principal investigator for a $1.14 CIHR transitions in care four-year research grant aimed at digitizing and evaluating stepped care across two Atlantic provinces. Currently, he is also collaborating with colleagues on a three-book series on stepped care to be published by Springer over the next few years. Peer support is foundational to programming in both projects.