Jean Addington

Jean Addington is a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Calgary. Her research focus is on psychosis and schizophrenia intending to find predictors and mechanisms for mental illness. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Research and career
Addington studies individuals at high risk of developing psychosis and people in the first stages of a psychotic illness. One goal of her research is to predict which people will convert to psychosis, which are individuals who are typically in their late teens and early twenties. Such an approach could lead to screening for early signs of risk of psychosis. Addington is developing and testing new treatments that could prevent the onset of psychosis for these high-risk individuals.

Addington holds the Novartis Chair for Schizophrenia Research at the University of Calgary and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020. She also received the Richard J. Wyatt Award from the International Association for Early Intervention in Mental Health in 2020.