Journal Articles:

Khoury, B., Lesage, M., Kasprzyk, A., Sadowski, I., Manova, V., Benchimol-Elkaim, B., Martins, C. D., Rigas, C., & Rej, S. (2025). Embodied and Embedded Mindfulness and Compassion Framework. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02561-4

Lesage, M., Chan, S., Kumar, S., Rajji, T., Melichercik, A., Desjardins, C., Friedland, J., Burhan, A., Colman, S., Chu, L., Davies, S., Derkach, P., Elmi, S., Gerretsen, P., Graff-Guerrero, A., Hussain, M., Ismail, Z., Kim, D., Krisman, L., … Rej, S. (2024). Are Opioids Agitating? A Data Analysis of Baseline Data from the STAN Study. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports, 8(1), 1297–1300. https://doi.org/10.3233/ADR-240025

Sansfaçon, J., Cinalioglu, K., Gloeckler, S. G., Kern, M., Yarns, B. C., Lesage, M., Hunter, J., & Rej, S. (2024). Subspecialty Selection and Fellowship Training Satisfaction among American and Canadian Geriatric Psychiatry Fellows. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 27(2), 178–182. https://doi.org/10.5770/cgj.27.733

Cinalioglu, K., Lavín, P., Bein, M., Lesage, M., Gruber, J., Se, J., Bukhari, S., Sasi, N., Noble, H., Andree-Bruneau, M., Launay, C., Sanders, J., Gauthier, S., Rosa, P., Lifshitz, M., Battistini, B. J., Beauchet, O., Khoury, B., Bouchard, S., Fallavollita, P., … Sekhon, H. (2023). Effects of virtual reality guided meditation in older adults: the protocol of a pilot randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in psychology, 14, 1083219. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1083219

Book Chapters:

Bodenstein, K. C., Paquin, V., Sekhon, K., Lesage, M., Cinalioglu, K., Rej, S., Vahia, I., & Sekhon, H. (2023). Digital markers of mental health problems: phenotyping across biological, psychological, and environmental dimensions. In Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry: A Primer (pp. 105-122). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Bein, M., Lesage, M. (co-first author), Dikaios, E., Chakravarty, M., Segal, Z., Royal, I., Speechley, M., Schiavetto, A., Blumberger, D., Sacchet, M. D., Therriault, J., Gruber, J., Tourjman, V., Richard-Devantoy, S., Nair, V., Bruneau, M. A., Rej, S., Lifshitz, M., & Sekhon, H. (2022). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy vs. a health enhancement program for the treatment of late-life depression: Study protocol for a multi-site randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 14, 976636. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.976636

Lavin, P., Lesage, M (co-first author)., Monroe, E., Kanevsky, M., Gruber, J., Cinalioglu, K., Rej, S., & Sekhon, H. (2022). Humanoid robot intervention vs. treatment as usual for loneliness in long-term care homes: Study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in psychiatry, 13, 1003881. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1003881

Sivan, K. D., J, K. A., Lesage, M., Allana, G., Sophia Diana, E., Marilyn, S., Karl, L., Soham, R., & Harmehr, S. (2022). Exercise for geriatric psychiatry outpatients: Results from a clinic intervention. Psychiatry research, 317, 114811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114811

Burack, J.A., Friedman, S., Lesage, M., & Brodeur, D. (2022). Re-visiting the ‘mysterious myth of attention deficit’: a systematic review of the recent evidence. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research.https://doi.org/ 10.1111/jir.12994

Benm’rad, M., Lesage, M., Cinalioglu, K., Lavin, P., Malouin, J. F., Drouin, P. O., Nobel, H., Rej, S., Greenway, K., & Suri, R. 2024, June 6. Virtual reality use for exercise in hemodialysis: Co-creation of the VIRTUE-HD program by patient partners, healthcare professionals, and an industrial partner [Poster]. Jewish General Hospital's 2024 Student Research Day, Montreal, Canada.

Lesage, M., et al. 2023, March 5. Case Series of a Humanoid Robot Intervention for Loneliness in Long-term Care Homes [Poster]. The American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, New Orleans, USA.

Lesage, M. 2022, October 14-15. The Impacts of Mindfulness and Behavioural Activation on Brain Health in Late-Life Depression: Resolving Complexity Through a Proposed Experimental Design [Poster]. The Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

• Graduate Excellence Fellowship, McGill Education and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, $12,000 (2023)

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral Award (CGS-D), $120,000 (2025)

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BA in Psychology, McGill University

MA in Counselling Psychology, McGill University