Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre
Brazil
Dr. Ives Cavalcante Passos is working an Associate professor of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and a researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Dr. Cavalcante Passos got his medical degree at Federal University of Ceara (Brazil) and Ph.D. at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Furthermore, he did his sandwich Ph.D. at and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston(Houston - TX, USA). His main focus is on mood disorders, illness progression of psychiatry disorders, post- traumatic stress disorder, suicide, and methods to analyze big data, such as machine learning.