Alessandro Bertolino

Biography

"Dr Alessandro Bertolino is the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Bari, Italy. Dr Bertolino received his MD in 1991 from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bari and completed his residency in psychiatry, also at the University of Bari in 1995. Between 1994 and 1999 he worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda (MD, USA) and for the last 4 years of this period he was at the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. Starting from October of 1999, he has worked at the University of Bari, first as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor. In 2010 he has also won a national competition for full professorship in psychiatry in Italy. He completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2002 at the University of Bari. He has been the recipient of the A. D'errico award from the Italian Society of Psychopathology and received Stanley Foundation grants in 1999 and 2002. He has also received several other research grants from the Italian government, the EU, the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). Dr Bertolino has published a significant number of papers in peer-reviewed journals. At the beginning of his scientific career his work was predominantly focused on neuroimaging studies in schizophrenia. His more recent work has been centred around understanding genetic aetiology of schizophrenia and pharmacogenetics of response to treatment with antipsychotic drugs. He then spent two years at Hoffman-La Roche Ltd in Basel heading the Biomarker group in the Neuroscience DTA. In these two years, Dr Bertolino has led a number of efforts in the fields of biomarker discovery and application in Psychiatry, Neurology and Child Psychiatry. As of october 1 2015, Dr Bertolino returned to the University of Bari"

Research Interest

Psychiatry,Clinical Research,Neuroscienze,Medical Imaging