Maurizio Fava

Maurizio Fava was the founder and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Depression Clinical and Research Program (DCRP) from 1990 until 2014. Under Fava’s direction, the DCRP became one of the most highly regarded depression-related programs in the country, conducting research in the pharmacotherapy of resistant depression, neuroimaging, genetics, neurophysiology, neuroendocrinology, novel pharmacotherapies, alternative medicine, and psychotherapy. Since 2007, he has been director of the MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute, an academic clinical research organization specializing in multicenter trials and the use of innovative research methodologies. He is also the director of MGH’s Clinical Research Program, executive vice chair of the MGH Department of Psychiatry, and Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, as well as editor-in-chief of MGH’s Mind, Mood & Memory newsletter.

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