Distinctions

2025 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grants: Avatar Therapy and Ethical Issues Related to the Use of Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence with Patients Living with a Severe Mental Health Disorder

2024 Project Grants from the Research Center of the Montreal University Institute of Mental Health: Avatar Therapy for the Treatment of Refractory Major Depressive Disorder: An Exploratory Study

2023 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grants: Schizophrenia Canadian Neuroimaging Database

2023 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grants: A randomized controlled trial comparing virtual reality therapy to supportive therapy to reduce cannabis use in patients with psychotic disorders

2023 Ranked 1st in the Senior Clinical Research Fellow Fellowship Program of the Quebec Health Research Fund

2022 Health Canada Research Institutes Project Grant: A randomized controlled trial comparing virtual reality therapy to supportive therapy to reduce cannabis use in patients with psychotic disorders 

2021 Health Canada Research Institutes Catalyst Project Grant: Innovative virtual reality-based psychotherapy for the treatment of cannabis use disorder in patients with psychotic disorders.

2020 Dissemination Grant, doctoral level, awarded by the Research Center of the Montreal University Institute of Mental Health: Dellazizzo, L., Luigi, M., Potvin, S., & Dumais, A. (2020). Evidence on virtual reality-based therapies for psychiatric disorders: A meta-review of meta-analyses. Journal of Medical Internet Research.