Dr. Anees Bahji

Anees Bahji is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and a Ph.D. Epidemiology student at the Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. He earned an MD from the University of British Columbia in 2015. He is also a certified specialist in Psychiatry through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and an Addiction Medicine specialist through the International Society of Addiction Medicine. His Ph.D. thesis will evaluate the feasibility of using routinely collected population-based administrative health data to research the epidemiology of cannabis use disorder and related outcomes. Outside his graduate studies, he researches the broader epidemiology and treatment of substance use disorders, focusing on cannabis and concurrent psychiatric disorders.