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Taiane de Azevedo Cardoso is a clinical psychologist with a doctorate in health and behavior. Her research field is focused on understanding the clinical trajectories of individuals suffering from mood disorders through prospective cohort studies. She completed her post-doctoral research on Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University (Canada). She has more than 130 peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals in the field of Psychiatry. In 2023, she received the Samuel Gershon Junior Investigator Award from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders. Importantly, she was recently ranked among the top 1% of researchers in the field of bipolar disorder according to Expertscape.

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 research on neuroscience and artificial intelligence at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) – Houston, Texas, USA. In 2016, he was selected as a Young Physician Leader by the Interacademy Medical Panel (M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers) and the Brazilian National Academy. Dr. Passos has a total of 125 peer-reviewed articles published in top psychiatric journals in PubMed. He has authored a total of seven books, including the Springer Nature titles “Bipolar Disorder: An Evidence-Based Clinical Guide”, “Personalized Psychiatry – Big Data Analytics in Mental Health”, and “Digital Mental Health”.

Flávio Kapczinsk i, MD, PhD is a leader in the field of research on bipolar disorder, an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at McMaster University, and a full professor at UFRGS.

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) listed Prof. Kapczinski among the most influential minds in academia, and he has a total of 554 peer-reviewed articles in Pubmed. He published a total of 9 books, including the Springer books entitled “Personalized Psychiatry: Big Data Analytics in Mental Health” and “Digital Mental Health”.