Dr. Wardell is an Independent Scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Dr. Wardell received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a licensed Clinical Psychologist. He completed his clinical residency in the outpatient addiction service at CAMH, where he focused on the assessment and treatment of clients with alcohol use disorders. He subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at CAMH, for which he received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study behavioural risk factors for alcohol use disorder using novel human laboratory methods.