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Marco Solmi

MD, PhD, Psychiatrist

Clinician Investigator, Neuroscience

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Associate Professor, Psychiatry

University of Ottawa

Contact

613-798-5555 ext 78043

Research Groups

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Research Group
Hatching Ideas Lab
The Hatching Ideas Lab is a research lab headed by Dr. Simon Hatcher based out of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Our program of research f...

Bio

Dr. Marco Solmi is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Ottawa, Canada, Psychiatrist working at The Ottawa Hospital, Investigator at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Scientist at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Berlin, and visiting academic at University of Southampton, Centre for Innovation in Mental Health-Developmental Lab, School of Psychology. He is also Affiliate of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University, US. He is Chair of ECNP Physical And meNtal Health (PAN-Health) Thematic Working Group (TWG), and member of the Prevention of Mental Disorders And Mental Health Promotion TWG. He is also member of the consensus core clinical and psychosocial battery committee, as well as of the new research methods for clinical/psychosocial studies committee of The Canadian Network for Research in Schizophrenia and Psychoses, of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology (CAPE), and of the Canadian Consortium for Early Intervention in Psychosis (CCEIP). 

Research Goals and Interests

Dr. Marco Solmi's main area of interest is epidemiological and evidence-based psychiatry, leveraging both meta-research techniques and national databases to answer clinically relevant questions. Clinically, he is most interested in prevention/early interventions for mental disorders, psychopharmacology, and physical health in those with mental disorders. He has experience in coordinating large international project, as co-PI of the Collaborative Outcomes study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times (COH-FIT), an online survey translated in 30 languages involving over 230 researchers from over 50 countries measuring functioning and physical and mental health in the general population during COVID-19 pandemic (www.coh-fit.com).
 

The SCIENCES lab, headed by Dr. Marco Solmi, focuses on epidemiology studies and evidence synthesis projects in the areas of COVID-19, physical health among those with mental health disorders, the effectiveness and safety of biological and psychosocial treatments for mental health disorders, and eating disorders. 

Dr. Solmi's current research activities include:

  1. U-REACH (www.u-reach.org) is an open-access platform aimed at providing up-to-date findings generated from umbrella reviews to facilitate accessing knowledge on psychopharmacology for wide range of stakeholders such as researchers, clinicians, policy-makers, and people with lived and living experience.
  2. Real world evidence studies form international cohorts on risk prediction
  3. Real world evidence studies form international cohorts on psychopharmacology response prediction
  4. Disparities in physical healthcare for those with and without mental disorders

News


Publications

Hospital-based care for hallucinogens and risk of mania and bipolar disorder: A population-based cohort study

2025-12-02 Go to publication

Development and validation of a prognostic model and risk calculator for the estimation of bipolar-spectrum disorder risk in hospitalised adolescents with non-psychotic/non-bipolar mental disorders

2025-09-29 Go to publication

Guidance for the reporting of bibliometric analyses: A scoping review

2025-09-26 Go to publication

Prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder/hyperkinetic disorder of pediatric and adult populations in clinical settings: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression

2025-08-28 Go to publication

Multidisciplinary consensus on prevention, screening and monitoring of clozapine-associated myocarditis and clozapine rechallenge after myocarditis – ADDENDUM

2025-08-15 Go to publication

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