Rodrigo Machado-vieira

Biography

Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc. is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Experimental Therapeutics and Molecular Pathophysiology Program at UTHealth Harris County Psychiatric Center (HCPC). He was previously at the National Institue of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2012-2016 as the Director of the Translational Research Clinic in Mood Disorders at the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch. Dr. Machado-Vieira received his M.D. from PUC-RS in Porto Alegre, Brazil and his Ph.D in Psychiatry at the University of Sao Paulo following his residency training in Psychiatry at the Federal University of Health Sciences. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology and Experimental Therapeutics at NIMH, he was the Chief of the Mood Disorders Program, LIM-27 and professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has received several grants and awards for his research on mood disorders including the National Institutes of Health Fellows Award for Research Excellence, the Brazilian Psychiatric Association Award, the Gerald Klerman Young Investigator Award, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), Sao Paulo Young Investigator Research Award and the Stanley Medical Research Institute Research Award. Has more than 200 articles published and more than 6,400 citation of his articles.

Research Interest

Mood Disorders; Neuroimaging; Psychopharamcology.