Dr. Faedda's Biographical Sketch
Gianni L. Faedda, MD
Education
MD: University of Cagliari Medical School, Italy
Residency: Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, Belmont MA
Fellowship (Neuropharmacology): Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, Belmont MA
Fellowship (Clinical Psychopharmacology): Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
Board Certification
American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry (Psychiatry)
Dr. Faedda is a psychopharmacologist with extensive expertise in the maintenance treatment of patients with mood and anxiety disorders. He maintains an active clinical practice within the Mood Disorders Center, seeing patients with a wide range of psychiatric disorders. In addition to patients with Bipolar Disorder, Dr. Faedda has a special interest in patients with early onset of mood, attention and anxiety disorders, including such conditions as Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD and ADHD), depression, separation anxiety, phobias, OCD and PTSD, and their interplay with Learning Disabilities or Sensory disregulation. Dr. Faedda often consults on patients with refractory mood disorders, a history of treatment failure or adverse reactions.
In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Faedda is engaged in academic pursuits within Psychiatry. He reviews manuscripts for the journals Bipolar Disorder, Essential Psychopharmacology, CNS Spectrum, Journal of Affective Disorders and the Journal of Bipolar Disorders and has authored 40 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Faedda is a member of the American Psychiatric Association since 1988 and a Lifetime Member of the International Society for Bipolar Disorder, and co-chair, Governance Committee. He supervises psychology graduate students during their internships and internships, as well as their fellowship-training at the Mood Disorders Center. He has written and published extensively and lectures nationally and internationally on the topic of mood disorders.
Dr. Faedda's research interests include diverse topics within the field of mood disorders and he conducts independent research in collaboration with centers in the US and in Europe. Over the years Dr. Faedda published several studies on the course of bipolar disorder, including the effect of seasonality, lithium discontinuation, sequence of episodes, age of onset, comorbidity and predictors of outcome. More recently his research has been dedicated to the phenomenology of bipolar disorder in children, the differential diagnosis from other disorders, and the effects of treatment with stimulants and antidepressants. Currently Dr. Faedda is involved in developing objective measures for the assessment of activity and attention disorders in children.