Division of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation

Pedro is a research fellow in the Division of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, focusing on evaluating the effects of neuromodulation treatments on patients with mental disorders. He is a medical physicist who graduated from the University of São Paulo, with a master’s degree and doctorate focused on magnetic resonance imaging from the same institution. His doctoral thesis was awarded the CAPES Thesis Award 2023 in the area of Medicine II and received an honorable mention in the Tese Destaque USP 2023 Award in the area of Health Sciences. He is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Interdisciplinary Service of Neuromodulation at the Institute of Psychiatry of the Hospital das Clínicas of FMUSP under the supervision of Professor André Russowsky Brunoni, focusing on multimodal MRI analysis to evaluate the effects of electroconvulsive therapy and magnetic seizure therapy in patients with treatment-resistant depression.