Neil Seeman | |
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| Born | Toronto, Canada, 1970 [1] |
| Alma mater | Queen's University at Kingston (BA), University of Toronto (JD), Harvard University (MPH) |
| Spouse | Sarit Goldman-Seeman |
| Children | David, Dori |
| Parent(s) | Philip Seeman, Mary V. Seeman |
Neil Seeman is a Canadian author on mental health and health policy topics. [2] [3] His contributions seek to describe mental health stigma in business as seen through his experiences as an entrepreneur. [4]
Neil Seeman attended Upper Canada College from 1984 to 1988. He obtained a BA from Queen's University in 1992, a JD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1995, and a Master's of Public Health from Harvard University in 1998. [5] [6]
In 1998, Seeman was a founding member of the editorial board of the National Post newspaper. In 2006, he co-founded the Health Strategy Innovation Cell at Massey College in the University of Toronto. Seeman is the co-author of Psyche in the Lab: Celebrating Brain Science in Canada (Hogrefe & Huber). He is the co-author of XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame (University of Toronto Press). [7] [8] The authors' concept of "healthy living vouchers" in XXL was criticized for being impractical and too reliant on state intervention to be effective as a policy tool to curtail the obesity epidemic. [9]
In 2009, Seeman founded RIWI Corp. [10] He was CEO of RIWI until September, 2021. [11] In May, 2023, he published Accelerated Minds: Unlocking the Fascinating, Inspiring, and Often Destructive Impulses that Drive the Entrepreneurial Brain. [12] In November, 2023, he co-founded Sutherland House Experts, for which he is CEO and Publisher. [13]
He was appointed a Fields Institute Fellow in 2022 by the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. [14] He is a Senior Fellow of Massey College and a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. [15] He serves as Senior Academic Advisor to the Investigative Journalism Bureau at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and as knowledge translation lead to the Health Informatics, Visualization, and Equity (HIVE) Lab at the University of Toronto. [16] [17]
Seeman is the son of dopamine scientist Philip Seeman and women's mental health researcher Mary V. Seeman. [18] He is married to Sarit Goldman-Seeman and is the father of Dori Seeman and David Seeman. [19]
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