Prof. Scott B. Patten is a psychiatrist and epidemiologist. He is a Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, where he holds the Cuthbertson and Fischer Chair in Pediatric Mental Health. He is a former Clinical Medical Director of the Mood Disorders Program at the Foothills Medical Centre. Dr. Patten’s research applies epidemiological (population-based) approaches to answering questions related to mental health, including the prevalence of mental disorders, associated risk and prognostic factors, and patterns of mortality. He has also contributed important studies of medical–psychiatric comorbidity, mental health stigma, and many other topics. He is an author of >900 publications indexed in the Web of Science and was recognized as “highly cited” by Clarivate Analytics in 2018. He was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2020.