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Jair C. Soares, M.D., Ph.D., joined UTHealth in 2009 and currently serves as Professor and Pat R. Rutherford, Jr. Chair in Psychiatry at McGovern Medical School and Founding Dean of the School of Behavioral Health Sciences. He acts as Executive Director of UTHealth Harris County Psychiatric Center. Dr. Soares also directs the Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, which focuses on the search for the causes and the development of new treatments for mood disorders.

Dr. Soares’s research interests center around depression and bipolar disorder. He is also interested in how deep brain stimulation, neuroendocrinology, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, and psychopharmacology approaches may help us understand and treat mood disorders.

Cesar A. Soutullo, M.D., Ph.D., is the John S. Dunn Professor in the Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and serves as Vice Chair and Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He also serves as the Director of the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Outpatient Program.

Dr. Soutullo’s research focuses on ADHD and pediatric mood disorders (depression and bipolar disorder). He has investigated the phenomenology of early stages of these disorders, studying children of parents with bipolar disorder and pre-school children with early symptoms of possible ADHD.