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João L. de Quevedo, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist with more than 20 years of experience in helping patients diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression. He uses the latest advancements in interventional psychiatry to help patients manage complex diagnoses and provide them with personalized treatment strategies. His areas of interest are treatment-resistant depression, major depressive disorder, bipolar depression, interventional psychiatry, and brain stimulation.
He’s a Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences professor and the John S. Dunn Distinguished Professor at McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston. He’s also the vice chair for faculty development and outreach, the director of the Translational Psychiatry Program, and the director of the Treatment-Resistant Depression Program. Concurrently, he is a professor at the Neuroscience Graduate Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and an adjunct professor in the graduate program in health sciences at his former Brazilian university, the University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNESC).
De Quevedo has been involved in research since 1994 while in medical school. He was a research fellow working with Ivan A. Izquierdo, PhD, one of Brazil’s most important scientists. In 1996, he published his first research paper focused on the neurobiology of learning and memory, an area to which he devoted himself until the completion of his doctorate.
He gradually shifted his research interest to the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, particularly major depression and bipolar disorder. As a researcher, he has been working to develop experimental treatments that can be used in the future for patients.
De Quevedo graduated from medical school in 1998 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. He then completed his psychiatry residency training in 2000, followed by a fellowship in psychopharmacology and a doctorate in biological sciences (biochemistry) in 2002 from the same institution.
He moved to the U.S. in 2014 after serving as faculty for 15 years at the University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNESC) in Brazil, where he held several positions, including dean of the medical school.
De Quevedo is editor-in-chief for the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry and associate editor for Translational Psychiatry.
He is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Dr. de Quevedo is Executive Director of the UTHealth Houston Center for Interventional Psychiatry, a specialized clinical, academic, research, and educational program dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of individuals with severe, complex, and treatment-resistant psychiatric illness. The Center integrates advanced interventional treatments with comprehensive psychiatric care, research, and education.
The Many Faces of UTHealth Houston: Joao de Quevedo, MD, PhD
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Member, Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, 2014 – Present
Member, Santa Catarina State Association of Psychiatry, 2000 – Present
Member, Rio Grande do Sul State Association of Psychiatry, 1999 – 2000
Member, Brazilian Association of Clinical Neuroscience (ABRANEC), 2013 – Present
Member, Brazilian Association of Psychiatry, 1999-present
Member, Brazilian Society of Neuroscience and Behavior (SBNeC), 1995 – Present
Member, American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2015 – Present
Member, American Psychiatric Association, 2014 – Present
Member, Society of Biological Psychiatry, 2014 – Present
Member, International Society for Bipolar Disorders, 2012 – Present
Member, Society for Neuroscience, 1998 – Present
Fellow, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), 2022–Present
2023–Present — John S. Dunn Distinguished Professor, UTHealth Houston
2022–Present — Fellow, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP)
2021 — World Expert in Mood Disorders, Expertscape
2020–2021 — Top Cited Article, Bipolar Disorders: “Accelerated hippocampal biological aging in bipolar disorder”
2011–2021 — Research Fellow Level 1A, Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
2011 – 2016 Research Fellow Level 1A (the highest level), granted by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Brazil).
2009 – 2013 Top Cited Paper 2009 – 2013 “Effects of chronic mild stress on the oxidative parameters in the rat brain” Neurochemistry International.
2008 – 2013 Affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
2008 – 2011 Research Fellow Level 1C, granted by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Brazil).
2008 – 2010 Top Cited Article 2008 – 2010 “Brain creatine kinase activity in an animal model of mania” Life Sciences.
2008 – 2008 GSK Junior Investigator Travel Fellowships to ISBD India Conference January 2008, International Society for Bipolar Disorders.
2005 – 2008 Research Fellow Level 2, granted by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Brazil).
2010 – Present Periodic: Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria (São Paulo)
2015 – Present Periodic: Journal of Affective Disorders
2014 – Present Periodic: Advances in Medicine
2013 – Present Periodic: Behavioural Neurology
2013 – Present Periodic: International Journal of Brain Science
2011 – Present Periodic: Revista Debates em Psiquiatria
2010 – 2013 Periodic: Recent Patents on Biomarkers
2004 – Present Periodic: Archives of Clinical Psychiatry
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