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Maurizio Fava M.D.
Dr. Fava is currently Vice Chair for the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Depression Clinical and Research Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Fava obtained his medical degree from the University of Padova School of Medicine and completed a residency training in endocrinology at the same university. He then moved to the United States and completed a residency training in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been Director of the Depression Research Program since 1990 at the same hospital. Dr. Fava has also been successful in obtaining funding for his program, as principal or co-principal investigator, from both the National Institute of Health and industry for a total of more than $15,000,000 in the past ten years.
Dr. Fava has authored or co-authored more than 200 original articles published or in press in referenced medical journals with international circulation. He has also edited three books, and published more than 50 chapters and 200 abstracts. He has received several awards during his career and is on the editorial board of four international medical journals. His major research interests have been the development of effective short-term and long-term strategies in the treatment of depression and depressive subtypes, and the study of treatment resistant depression. Dr. Fava is also a well-known national and international speaker, having given more than 200 presentations at national and international meetings during his career in psychiatry.
 Dr. Fava is Editior-in-Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital's
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