Beny Lafer

Associate Professor of the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (FMUSP). Researcher level 2 at CNPq. He graduated in Medicine from the University of São Paulo in 1986 and completed a residency at the Institute of Psychiatry at the Hospital das Clínicas of FMUSP (1987-89). He specialized in Psychopharmacology and Neurosciences at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School between 1991 and 1995. He completed a sandwich doctorate in 1998 from Harvard and USP Universities. He obtained the title of Professor Livre-Docente at USP in 2010. He is Director of the Bipolar Disorder Program (PROMAN) at the Institute of Psychiatry at Hospital das Clínicas at FMUSP. His research is focused on clinical, pathophysiological and therapeutic investigation for Bipolar Disorder and is funded by CNPq, FAPESP, American Psychiatric Association, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, Canadian Health and Research Institute and Baszucki Brain Research Fund. His scientific production includes more than 346 publications indexed in international journals that have received 8100 citations and have an h index = 40. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Bipolar Disorders and serves as a member of the editorial board of the journals Bipolar Disorders - The Journal, Journal of Affective Disorders, Psychiatric Annals and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, Society for Biological Psychiatry and International Society for Bipolar Disorders. Since 2013, he has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. In 2018 he received the Mogens Schou Award from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (Source: Lattes Curriculum)