Scientific Committee

Biography

Robert Ladouceur, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus at Laval University in Quebec City. After his doctoral studies, he completed post-doctoral fellow Temple University in Philadelphia.
He has published 400 scientific papers, made 500 presentations and published 6 books.
His work on gambling is internationally known.  He was invited twice to present his work at the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, the presidential U.S. commission on gambling. 
Among the awards he received, we can cite the Research Award from National Council on Problem Gambling, recognizing the high quality of his work, and the Senior Research Award, from the National Center for Responsible Gaming, Harvard University.
He presented his work in many Canadian provinces, American states European counties, Australia, New Zealand, and different countries in Asia.  His cognitive treatment for pathological gamblers developed at Laval University is widely used around the world. 
He published a paper on Responsible Gambling, called the Reno Model, with Alex Blaszczynski, from University of Sydney, Australia and Howard Shaffer, from Harvard University. This paper is a landmark in Responsible Gambling who guides many jurisdictions in designing their prevention programs. He is the co-chairman of the International Group on Responsible Gambling.
His books written with Stella Lachance entitled ‘Over coming pathological Gambling” a therapist and client guides was published by Oxford Press in 2007 (English), now available in Chinese, Japanese, and Finnish. 
By the end of 2018, Oxford University Press will publish his latest book on Responsible Gambling, entitled “Responsible Gambling: Primary Stakeholder Perspectives”. This book presents the state of the art of the theory and practices of responsible gambling as conceptualised by different stakeholders such as clinicians, researchers, operators, and policy makers.