History of the Research Centre
The research department was established in 1965 as part of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital. In 1972, the Hospital entered an affiliation agreement with the Université de Montréal.
In 1992, the research department became the Fernand-Seguin Research Centre, and new facilities were unveiled. The Centre obtained its own building on the Hospital’s grounds.
In 1995, it changed status from an FRSQ (Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec) research group to an FRSQ research centre, allowing it to significantly increase its operating budget.
At the start of the 2000s, Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital, Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies (RDP) and the Institut Philippe Pinel (IPP) formed a major partnership, with the research teams from RDP and IPP joining forces with the Fernand-Seguin Research Centre. This enabled it to broaden its field of research expertise to include the mental health of children and adolescents and to develop a new research area focusing on forensic psychiatry.
Today, the Centre has 50 full researchers, 30 affiliated researchers and over 280 interns across its three research areas.