Zach Walsh, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, a Research Affiliate with the BC Centre on Substance Use, and a Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the Therapeutic, Recreational, and Problematic Substance Use lab and the Problematic Substance Use clinic.  Zach has published and presented widely on topics related to harm reduction, substance use, cannabis, mental health and psychotherapy; his academic publications have received more than 3500 citations and he has provided invited consultation and testimony to diverse groups including the Canadian Senate, Canadian House of Commons, the Supreme Courts of British Columbia and Ontario, the Uruguayan Department of Health and others.  His research has been profiled in the New York Times, The Times of India and High Times and is supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and others.

For more information about Dr. Walsh please follow this link to his faculty page https://psych.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/zach-walsh/