Fundamentals of Psychiatry for Health Care Professionals

Roberto Cavallaro is full Professor of Psychiatry at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, and Head of the General Psychiatry and of the Psychotic Disorders Units at San Raffaele Universitary Scientific Hospital in Milan, Italy. He is also the Dean of Studies of the  Master Degree In Medicine and Surgery at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy. His main clinical interests include clinical psychiatry, neurobiology, psychopharmacology and cognition, specifically oriented to development of clinical assessment and strategies for pharmacological treatment and rehabilitation of neurocognition, social cognition and functional deficits in schizophrenia.

Cristina Colombo is Full Professor of Psychiatry at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, and Head of the Mood Disorders Unit at San Raffaele Universitary Scientific Hospital in Milan, Italy. She is also Director of the Residency School in Psychiatry and Director of the Master in Psychopathology and Criminology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy. She focuses her clinical research on increasing scientific knowledge and developing effective diagnosis and treatment options in mood disorders, specifically oriented to the chronobiological treatments of depressive and bipolar patients..