Joao L. de Quevedo, MD, PhD

Medical School
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 1998

Residency
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 2000

Fellowship
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 2002

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Dr. João Luciano de Quevedo is currently Professor of Psychiatry at the McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA. Over here he is Director of the Translational Psychiatry Program, Director of Research of the Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, and Director of the Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorder Program.

Before moving to Houston, he was dean at the University of Southern Santa Catarina Medical School, Criciúma, SC, Brazil, where he is still Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry. He is also a 1A research fellow (the highest level) of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil; an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (an award given to the most notable under 40 year-old researchers in Brazil), associate editor of the Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, and vice president of the Santa Catarina State Association of Psychiatry. He Is Director of the Continuous Medical Education Program in Psychiatry (PROPSIQ) of the Brazilian Association of Psychiatry. He is author of around 400 research papers (peer-reviewed) and 6 scientific books.

He has been involved in research since 1994, while still in Medical School. As a medical student he was a research fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Ivan A. Izquierdo, the most important scientist in Brazil at that time. In 1996 he published his first research paper focused on the neurobiology of learning and memory, area to which he devoted himself until shortly after the completion of his Ph.D. He was gradually shifting their research interest to the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, particularly mood disorders.

Dr. João Luciano de Quevedo became a specialist in depression and bipolar disorder, making important contributions in understanding the pathophysiology of this disease. Importantly, his main findings are related to the role of oxidative stress and changes in brain energy metabolism in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder. Furthermore, Dr. João Luciano de Quevedo has tested experimental treatments that can be used in the clinic in the near future.