CURRICULUM VITAE – PAOLO BRAMBILLA
Medical Doctor, Child and Adult Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst in training-ISIPSE-Milano
Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology and Neurophysiology
Full Professor of Psychiatry (Tenured position), University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Adjunct Full Professor of Psychiatry, UTHouston, USA
Director, Department of Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Program Director, Bachelor Degree in Professional Educator, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Director, School of Residency in Psychiatry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Councillor, ECNP executive committee
Co-Chair, EPA Neuroimaging & Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Sections
Co-Chair, ECNP Neuroimaging Network
Editor-in-Chief, Minerva Psychiatry
Associate Editor, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Affective Disorders (JAD) & JAD Reports
BIOGRAPHICAL
Name: Paolo Brambilla Date of birth: May 26, 1972
Marital status: married, father of three kids Citizenship: Italian
Phone: +39-02-5503.27.17 E-mail: paolo.brambilla1@unimi.it
Work address: Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Medico-Chirurgica e dei Trapianti, Università di
Milano, S.C. Psichiatria, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via
Francesco Sforza 35 – 20122 Milano
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Websites
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https://www.policlinico.mi.it/reparti/61/psichiatria
https://research.com/u/paolo-brambilla
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Dr. Paolo Brambilla graduated from the University of Milan, Milan, Italy in 1997, was a research fellow at the Mario
Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan in 1998, and specialized in Psychiatry at the University of Pavia,
Pavia, Italy in 2001. From 1999 to 2002 he had been a clinical research fellow first at the Western Psychiatric Institute
and Clinic (WPIC), University of Pittsburgh and afterwards at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas at San
Antonio. During his experience in the US Dr. Brambilla conducted MR studies combined to clinical neuropsychology
and psychopharmacology investigations applied to the field of mood disorders. In 2002 he was research fellow at the
University of Pavia and in 2003 at the University of Verona, Verona, Italy. Between 2002 and 2004 he had also been
research fellow at the IRCCS Scientific Institute “San Giovanni di Dio”, Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy. In 2005 he
completed his Ph.D. program at the University of Genova, Genova, Italy, by defending a thesis on the effects of lithium
in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of bipolar disorder patients and healthy controls. Since 2003 he is the scientific
coordinator of the Research Unit on Brain Imaging and Neuropsychology at the Section of Psychiatry of the University
of Verona. From 2004 to February 2015 Dr. Brambilla has been Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of
Udine, Udine, Italy, where he founded the Inter-University Center for Behavioural Neurosciences (ICBN) a unique
research consortium between the University of Udine and the University of Verona, Italy. Between 2005 and February
2015 he has been attending psychiatrist at the University Hospital of Udine and child and adolescent psychiatrist
consultant at the Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation Institute “La Nostra Famiglia” Association, Udine. Since 2005 he is the
coordinator of developmental psychopathology studies at the IRCCS Scientific and Clinical Institute “E. Medea”, Polo
FVG, Udine. He has been Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill between 2007-2009, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas at Houston since 2012. He became Associate Professor of
Psychiatry at the University of Milan, Milan, Italy, in 2015 and full professor in 2021. He got the position as attending
psychiatrist at the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan in 2015 and Director of the
Psychiatric Clinic in 2018. Dr. Brambilla from 2012 to 2017 has been member of the Scientific Boards of the “Imago 7”
Foundation, which manages the only MR scanner at ultra high field (7 Tesla) for human research present in Italy. Dr.
Brambilla is CoChair of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) Neuroimaging Section and of the EPA Child and
AdolescenT Psychiatry Section, CoChair of European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Neuroimaging
Network and member of the cultural association “Loco&motiva” dedicated to the research, study, and education of
emotions. Over the last 20 years Dr. Brambilla has trained and supervised the scientific and clinical activities of dozens
of medical students, residents in psychiatry, research fellows, PhD students, post-doc researchers, and junior faculties
in the field of mental health, neuropsychology, clinical psychology, and bioengineer. Furthermore, he accumulated
experience in business administration by leading rehabilitation, outpatient, and inpatient units and hospital psychiatric
departments as well as by managing consistent budgets for human resources in both clinical and research areas. He
has extensive experience in University teaching and is member of the Editorial Board of many scientific Journals. Since
2015 he is CoEditor-in-Chief of Journal of Affective Disorders (JAD); since 2019 he is Associate Editor of Psychiatry
Research: Neuroimaging and Associate Editor of Frontiers Aging in Psychiatry; since 2020 he is CoEditor-in-Chief of
JAD Reports and Editor-in-Chief of Minerva Psychiatry. Since 2020 he is Program Director of the Bachelor Degree in
Professional Educator and since October 2023 is Director of the School of Residency in Psychiatry at the University of
Milan, Milan, Italy. Since 2022 he is Councillor of the ECNP executive committee. Dr. Brambilla has been invited to
speak in plenary lectures or symposia by some of the most important national (SIP, SOPSI, SINPF, SIF, SIN, SINS,
SIRN, AINI, SISMEC, Italian Chapter ISMRM) and international congresses (SfN, WPA, WFSBP, SOBP, EPA, CINP,
ECNP, ISBD, IRPB, SIRS, HBM, IEEE_EMBC, ISTS) in neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology and neurosciences.
Finally, he is the recipient of several international scientific honors, of national and international grants, and is author or
co-author of more than 400 original papers published in International peer-reviewed Journals, being first, senior, and/or
corresponding author in most of them. His current lifetime h-index is 59 as calculated by Scopus, 73 by Google
Scholar, 70 by Web of Science Core Collection, 66 by ResearchGate, and 81 by Research.com. He is mentioned
amongst the most cited scientists for the field of bipolar disorders by Web of Science, for the filed of Neurosciences &
Psychology by Top Italian scientists and based on standardised scientific citation indicators by Ioannidis et al. (PLOS
Biology 18(10): e3000918, 2020). He also bears the Italian National Habilitation for Full Professor of Child and
Adolescent NeuroPsychiatry. His main areas of expertises are: Mood and Anxiety disorders, Schizophrenia, Psychosis,
Autism, Developmental Psychopathology, Neuroimaging, Neuropsychology, Neuroimmunology, Machine Learning. He
is Child and Adult Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, and Psychoanalyst in training.
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Undergraduate
Period Institute Position Director
10/91-07/97 University of Milan M.D. 1997 P. Mantegazza, M.D.
School of Medicine, Milan, Italy
I attended the Medical School of the University of Milan as student.
09/94-07/95 University of Milan Internship in Internal Medicine C. Rugarli, M.D.
S. Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
As a medical student I attended the inward of Internal Medicine at the San Raffaele Hospital.
08/95-07/97 University of Milan Internship in Psychiatry E. Smeraldi, M.D.
S. Raffaele Hospital Psychopharmacology Unit,
Milan, Italy
As a medical student I attended the psychotic inwards and outwards of Psychiatry at the San Raffaele Hospital.
Post-graduate:
Period Institute Position Director
07/97-01/98 University of Milan Internal Physician E. Smeraldi, MD
S. Raffaele Hospital in Psychiatry,
Milan, Italy Schizophrenia inpatient unit
As a medical doctor I visited and treated psychotic patients at the psychotic inwards of Psychiatry at the San Raffaele
Hospital. I also started my research work in clinical psychopharmacology, which resulted in an international peerreviewed
publication
02/98-11/01 University of Pavia Psychiatry Resident F. Petrella, MD
School of Medicine, Pavia, Italy
As a resident in Psychiatry I visited and treated psychiatric patients at the psychiatric inward of Psychiatry at the San
Matteo Hospital.
09/98-09/99 Mario Negri Institute Research Fellow G. Tognoni, MD
for Pharmacological Pharmacology
Research, Milan, Italy Laboratory
As a research fellow I attended the Pharmacology laboratory of the Mario Negri Institute and I learned the basis of
systematic review in psychopharmacology, which resulted in an international peer-reviewed publication.
06/99-07/01 University of Pittsburgh Clinical Research Fellow D.J. Kupfer, MD.
Western Psychiatric
Institute and Clinic (WPIC), Pittsburgh, PA
I have been trained in the field of neuroimaging and neuropsychology in mood disorders at the WPIC and my work
resulted in several international peer-reviewed publications.
05/00-07/01 University of Pittsburgh Consultant W. Kaye, MD
WPIC, Pittsburgh, PA Eating DisordersProgram
03/02-06/02 University of Texas Clinical Research Fellow C. Bowden, MD
Health Science Center
at San Antonio, USA
I continued my training in neuroimaging and neuropsychology in mood disorders in San Antonio, producing other peerreviewed
publications
03/02-02/04 University of Pavia Scientific Consultant F. Barale, MD
Dept.of Applied and E. Caverzasi, MD
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Behavioural Health Sciences
Back in Italy I acted as a consultant in neuropychopharmacology at the University of Pavia.
11/02-02/04 Biological Psychiatry Unit Research Fellow P.M. Rossini, MD PhD
S. Giovanni di Dio Hospital
Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
I also started a collaboration with the Fatebenefratelli Institute in Brescia in the field of biological psychiatry.
01/02-03/05 University of Genova PhD in Neuropharmacology F. Benfenati, MD
Genova, Italy & Neurophysiology
Center for Advanced Biotechnology
My PhD thesis was the completion of my neuroimaging training, focusing on the study with magnetic resonance
spectroscopy of the lithium effects in the brain in healthy and mood disorder subjects.
02/03-today Inter-University Center for Coordinator of the M. Ruggeri, MD
Behavioural Neurosciences Research Unit on Brain
University of Verona Imaging and Neuropsychology (RUBIN)
& University of Udine, Italy
I then funded the Research Unit on Brain Imaging and Neuropsychology (RUBIN) at the Inter-University Center for
Behavioural Neurosciences (ICBN) of the University of Verona and of the University of Udine. There are actually two
RUBIN laboratories coordinated by myself, on in Verona dedicated to psychotic and mood disorders, and on in Udine
dedicated to anxiety and developmental disorders.
01/04-02/15 University of Udine Assistant Professor Balestrieri, MD
Dept. Medical of Psychiatry
Sciences, Udine, Italy (Tenured position)
In 2004 I became tenured assistant professor of Psychiatry at the University of Udine.
02/05-02/15 IRCCS E. Medea Scientific Advisor F. Fabbro, MD
Scientific Institute & Attending Psychiatrist
Polo FVG, Italy
In 2005 I started my collaboration as developmental psychiatrist at the IRCCS “E. Medea” Institute and became
coordinator of the developmental psychopathology research unit, mostly dedicated to the study of autism and
dysregulation profile.
10/07-09/09 University of North Carolina Adjunct Assistant Professor D.R. Rubinow, MD
Department of Psychiatry of Psychiatry
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
My collaboration as adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at the Center of Excellence for Research and Treatment
of Bipolar Disorders University of North Carolina resulted in some peer-reviewed publications in bipolar disorder.
09/12-today University of Texas Adjunct Associate Professor J.C. Soares, MD
at Houston, USA of Psychiatry (2012-2023)
Department of Psychiatry Adjunct Full Professor
and Behavioral Sciences of Psychiatry (since 2023)
In 2012 I became adjunct associate professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas trying to maximize oversea
collaborations, particularly on bipolar disorders, and in 2023 adjunct full professor of Psychiatry.
09/15-today IRCCS E. Medea Scientific Advisor Dr. M.T. Bassi
La Nostra Famiglia Bosisio Parini Center, Lecco
Coordinator, Psychopathology Research Prof. F. Fabbro
Friuli Venezia-Giulia Center
In 2015 I started my collaboration as scientific advisor at the Bosisio Parini Center of the IRCCS “E. Medea” Institute
and continued my activity as coordinator of the developmental psychopathology research unit of the Friuli Venezia-
Giulia Center.
03/15-12/21 University of Milan Associate Professor Franzini, PhD, Dean
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Dept. Pathophysiology of Psychiatry (Tenured position)
& Transplantation
Milan, Italy
In 2015 I became tenured associate professor of Psychiatry at the University of Milan.
12/21-today University of Milan Full Professor Franzini, PhD, Dean
Dept. Pathophysiology of Psychiatry (Tenured position)
& Transplantation
Milan, Italy
In 2021 I became tenured full professor of Psychiatry at the University of Milan.
10/20-today University of Milan Program Director Franzini, PhD, Dean
Dept. Pathophysiology Bachelor Degree
& Transplantation in Professional Educator
Milan, Italy
10/23-today University of Milan Director Franzini, PhD, Dean
Dept. Pathophysiology School of Residency
& Transplantation in Psychiatry
Milan, Italy
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
DEGREES
— July 23rd, 1997 M.D., University of Milan, Milan, Italy, 110/110 cum lode (Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia);
— October 30th, 2001 Specialist in Psychiatry, University of Pavia, Italy, 50/50 cum lode (Specialista in Psichiatria);
— April 30th, 2005. Ph.D., University of Genova, Italy (Dottore di Ricerca in Neurofisiologia e Neurofarmacologia).
Certifications (Certificazioni)
— 1998 Italian Board of MD, number 2557;
— 2014-today: National habilitations as Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Abilitazione ASN Professore di
Seconda Fascia 06-D5, MED/25 Psichiatria) and as Full Professor of Child and Adolescent NeuroPsychiatry
(Abilitazione ASN Professore di Prima Fascia 06-G1, MED/39 Neuropsichiatria dell’Infanzia e dell’Adolescenza);
— 2017-today: National habilitation as Full Professor of Psychiatry (Abilitazione ASN Professore di Prima Fascia
06-D5, MED/25 Psichiatria).
CURRENT ACADEMIC / RESEARCH POSITIONS (POSIZIONI ACCADEMICHE / RICERCA ATTUALI)
— 2003-today: Co-coordinator, Research Unit Brain Imaging & Neuropsychology, Section Psychiatry, University of
Verona, Italy
— 2005-today: Co-coordinator, developmental psychopathology studies, IRCCS “E. Medea”, Polo FVG, Udine,
Italy.
— 2015-2021: Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Pathophysiology & Transplantation, University of
Milan, Milan, Italy (Professore Associato di Psichiatria);
— 2012-today: Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences,
University of Texas at Houston, USA (Professore Associato Aggiunto di Psichiatria;
— 2020-today: Program Director, Bachelor Degree in Professional Educator, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
(Presidente Del Collegio Didattico Interdipartimentale CdL in Educazione Professionale);
— 2021-today: Advanced Course Coordinator, Psychiatric Nurses, University of Milan, Milan, Italy (Coordinatore,
Corso Di Perfezionamento, Infermieristica psichiatrica, 7ZV).
—2021-today: Full Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Pathophysiology & Transplantation, University of Milan,
Milan, Italy (Professore Ordinario di Psichiatria);