Biography

Kallene Vidal, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Department of Psychiatry as an Assistant Professor.

She earned her Ph.D. from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany, from 2017 to 2018. Dr. Vidal worked previously as a psychiatrist and researcher at the Interdisciplinary Neuromodulation Service of the Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo (IPq-HCFMUSP), one of the largest academic medical centers in South America. She also received formal training in clinical research and clinical trials at Harvard Medical School.

Her research focuses on neuromodulation treatment strategies for neuropsychiatric disorders and on psychophysical and electrophysiological assessment of the visual system, guided by the concept of the “eye as a window to the brain,” to study neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.