Ives Cavalcante Passos, MD, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He completed his postdoctoral neuroscience and artificial intelligence at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) - Houston, Texas USA. In 2016, he was selected as Young Physician Leader by the Interacademy Medical Panel and M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers. Dr. Passos has a total of 97 peer-reviewed articles published in top psychiatric journals in Pubmed. He has also published a Springer book entitled “Personalized Psychiatry - Big Data Analytics in Mental Health”.
Francisco Diego Rabelo-da-Ponte is a psychologist. He completed his M.Sc and Ph.D in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He was visiting PhD student at the University of Central Lancashire (UK) focused on neurodevelopment and neuroimmunology. In 2019, Rabelo-da-Ponte received the Samuel Gershon Award for Junior Investigators organized by International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD). In 2020, he received the International Travel Grant Award from the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). Dr. Rabelo-da-Ponte has a total of 26 peer-reviewed articles in top psychiatric journals in Pubmed. Currently, he is a post-doctorate researcher at King's College of London.
Flávio Kapczinski, MD, PhD, is a leader in the field of research on bipolar disorder and a Professor of Psychiatry at McMaster University. Prof. Kapczinski has also served as a mentor, with several former trainees currently occupying important academic positions around the globe. Currently he is among the three most productive researchers in the field of bipolar disorder, and among the five most influential researchers in psychiatry in Canada. In 2013, he received the Mogens Schou Prize for Education from the International Society of bipolar disorders. Clarivate Inc (formerly Thomson Reuters) lists Prof. Kapczinski among the most influential minds in academia, and he has a total of 548 peer-reviewed articles in Pubmed. He published a total of 8 books, including the Springer book entitled “Personalized Psychiatry - Big Data Analytics in Mental Health”.
