Contact
Phone: 919.966.8832
Fax: 919.843.3950
E-Mail: jair_soares@med.unc.edu

Biography
Dr. Jair C. Soares graduated in 1990 from the University of Sao Paulo, School of Medicine, Brazil. After psychiatric residencies at the University of Sao Paulo (1991-1993) and the University of Pittsburgh (1993-1997), he took a brain imaging fellowship at the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University (1997-1999). Dr. Soares held an appointment as Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine from 1997-1999, and from 1999-2001 he was at the same institution as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Neurochemical Brain Imaging Laboratory. In January 2002 Dr. Soares took over new responsibilities with the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio as Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology, Chief of VA Psychiatry Research for the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, and Chief for the Division of Mood and Anxiety Disorders. He also held the Krus Endowed Chair in Psychiatry. In March of 2007 Dr. Soares accepted a new opportunity with the UNC School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, where he is the Yeargan Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and director of a newly established research center, the UNC Center of Excellence for Research and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder. Dr. Soares has extensive clinical research experience in the field of mood disorders as well as expertise in utilizing brain imaging modalities as research tools to investigate the brain mechanisms that are possibly involved with those disorders. Dr. Soares has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in various psychiatric publications. From 1998-2002 he co-edited the peer-review journal “Bipolar Disorders – An International Journal of Psychiatry and Neurosciences” and also edited/co-edited these textbooks, “Brain Imaging Investigations on Affective Disorders”, "Bipolar Disorders - Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications", and “Handbook of Medical Psychiatry”.