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Dr. Jair C. Soares joined UTHealth in 2009 as Professor and Chair
of the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the
Pat R. Rutherford, Jr. Chair in Psychiatry at the McGovern Medical
School, as well as the Executive Director of UTHealth Harris County
Psychiatric Center. A Board-certified psychiatrist, he also serves
as Chief of Psychiatry Services at Memorial Hermann Hospital and
LBJ Hospital. The sites provide patient care and are clinical
training and research facilities for UTHealth medical students,
psychiatry residents and psychiatry fellows.
Dr. Soares directs the UTHealth Center of Excellence on Mood
Disorders, which focuses on the search for causes and the
development of new treatments for mood disorders. The Center is
comprised of an active research team that specializes in clinical
neurosciences (neuroimaging, neurophysiology, cognitive
neurosciences, and genetics) and clinical psychopharmacology and
interventions research.
Dr. Soares received his medical degree from the University of Sao
Paulo (Brazil) and completed a general psychiatry residency at the
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of
Pittsburgh. Subsequently, Dr. Soares completed a brain imaging
fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine Department of
Psychiatry. He obtained a PhD in medical sciences at the Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).
Prior to joining UTHealth, Dr. Soares served as the Distinguished
Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Center of Excellence
for Research and Treatment of Bipolar Disorders at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and as Deputy Chair for Research
and Division Chief for Mood and Anxiety Disorders with the
Department of Psychiatry at The University of Texas Health Science
Center at San Antonio.
Dr. Soares has published more than 350 peer-reviewed articles and
book chapters in the psychiatric literature and has held editorial
positions on a number of national and international medical
journals. His research has been funded over the years by multiple
grants from NIH, VA, private foundations and the pharmaceutical
industry. Since April 2015, he has been the co-editor in chief for
the Journal of Affective Disorders. Since 2018, he has served as
president of the International Society on Affective Disorders. He
also is co-editor in chief for a new spin-off publication, Journal
of Affective Disorders Reports, which was launched in 2020.
Currently he serves as president-elect for the American Association
for Chairs of Academic Departments of Psychiatry. He also serves in
the finance committee and in the travel award committee for the
International Society for Clinical Trials Methodology (ISCTM). Dr.
Walss-Bass is Associate Professor and Director of the University of
Texas Health Brain Collection for Research in Psychiatric Disorders
in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in Houston.
Dr. Brambilla is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of Milan and Chair of the European Psychiatric
Association (EPA) Neuroimaging Section.
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