In SWISS100, I am most interested in life-long determinants of psychopathology in the very old.
Current Positions
- Chief of Service of the old-age psychiatry service (SUPAA), Department of psychiatry (DP), Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)
- Full Professor of geriatric psychiatry and psychotherapy at UNIL
- Vice-President of the Swiss Society for Old Age Psychiatry
- Vice-president of the European Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
Educational Background
- FMH/ ISFM specialty in psychiatry and psychotherapy
- FMH / ISFM subspecialty in old age psychiatry and psychotherapy
- FMH / ISFM subspecialty in consultation and liaison psychiatry
- FMH / ISFM certificate in interventional psychiatry
Prior Experience
- Clinical training in psychiatry and psychotherapy in French-speaking Switzerland and neurology at the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Brazil
- Post-doctoral clinical and research fellowships in neuropsychiatry at the University College London (UCL), Institute of Neurology, UK
- Post-doctoral research fellowship in Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, USA
- Visiting professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Research focus
- Predictors of behavioral and psychological symptoms and signs in the elderly with cognitive disorders and further cognitive decline
- Various methodologies derived from psychopathology, mathematics, neuropsychology, epidemiology, genetics, metabolics, and neuroimaging as well as animal models
Additional Experiences/Mile Stones
- Former Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Old-Age Psychiatry
- Chair of the Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms in Neurocognitive Disorders and of the Old-Age Perspective Working Groups of the ICD-11 task force of the WHO
- Founding Member of the Swiss Society for Interventional Psychiatry