Stephanie McDermid Vaz, Ph.D., C.Psych.

Cleghorn Early Intervention in Psychosis Program
St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton and Hamilton Health Sciences
25 Charlton Ave East, Suite 703
Hamilton, ON L8N 1Y2
Tel: 905-522-1155 ext. 33883
Fax: 905-525-2805
E-mail: smcdermi@stjoes.ca

Dr. McDermid Vaz received her Ph.D in 2005 from York University and completed her internship at the London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario. She is currently the Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Cleghorn Early Intervention in Psychosis Program, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. Dr. McDermid Vaz's research and clinical interests include heterogeneity in schizophrenia and whether neuropsychological functioning can facilitate the identification of more homogenous groups of individuals and improve treatment outcomes. She is also interested in the functional outcome assessment in first episode psychosis populations, and the ecological validity of neuropsychological measures. Current funded projects include the development of a functional outcome measure to assess life skills in individuals with first episode psychosis, and the investigation of memory functioning as a tool in organizing discrete subtypes within the schizophrenia population.

Selected Publications:

Heinrichs, R.W., Ammari, N., Miles, A.A., McDermid Vaz, S., & Chopov, B. (2009). Psychopathology and cognition in divergent functional outcomes in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, in press.

Heinrichs, R.W., Ammari, N., Mile, A.A., & McDermid Vaz, S. (2008). Cognitive performance and functional competence as predictors of community independence in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, in press.

Heinrichs, R.W., Miles, A.A., Smith, D., Zargarian, T., McDermid Vaz, S., Goldberg, J.O., & Ammari, N. (2008). Cognitive, clinical, and functional characteristics of verbally superior schizophrenia patients. Neuropsychology, 22, 321-328.

Heinrichs, R. W., Ammari, N., McDermid Vaz, S., & Miles, A. A. (2008). Are schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder neuropsychologically distinguishable? Schizophrenia Research, 99, 149-154.

Heinrichs, R. W., Goldberg, J. O., Miles, A. A., & McDermid Vaz, S. (2007). Predictors of medication competence in schizophrenia patients. Psychiatry Research, 157, 47-52.

McDermid Vaz, S.A. and Heinrichs, R.W. (2006). Stability and validity of memory based subtypes of schizophrenia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12, 782-791.

Heinrichs, R.W., Statucka, M., Goldberg, J., and McDermid Vaz, S.A. (2006). Assessing the assessment: The University of California Performance Skills Assessment (UPSA) in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 88, 135-141.

McDermid Vaz, S.A. (2004). Nonverbal memory functioning following right anterior temporal lobectomy: A meta-analytic review. Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy, 13, 446-452.

Heinrichs, R.W., and McDermid Vaz, S.A. (2004). Verbal memory errors and symptoms in schizophrenia. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 17, 98-101.

McDermid Vaz, S.A., and Heinrichs, R.W. (2002).  Schizophrenia and memory impairment: Evidence for a neurocognitive subtype. Psychiatry Research, 113, 93-105.

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