William George Honer

William George Honer is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience and Translational Psychiatry, at the University of British Columbia, where he holds the Jack Bell Chair in Schizophrenia Research. He earned his MD from Queen’s University in 1984 and completed his psychiatric residency at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University. His research focuses on the neurobiology of schizophrenia, antipsychotic polypharmacy, cognitive subtypes linked to cerebrovascular disease, and the interplay of synaptic integrity and menopause in Alzheimer’s disease risk. He has published in The Lancet Psychiatry, Science Advances, and the American Journal of Psychiatry. His honors include the CIHR Scientist Award and the Heinz Lehmann Award from the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology.