Julio Licinio

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Sometimes works of art stop me in my tracks. A painting that has stuck with me is Paul Gaugin’s masterpiece, painted in Tahiti in 1897–1898 and now at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: “D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?” Gaugin wrote those words - meaning “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” - on the canvas.Where do I come from? I am from Brazil, born in Minas Gerais, known for its rich iron ore deposits. The poet Drummond de Andrade wrote, “Ninety percent iron in the cobblestones. Eighty percent iron in the souls.” When I was 12, my family moved to Salvador, Bahia, an amazing coastal city founded in 1549 as Brazil’s first capital and that is now the largest majority (80%) black city outside Africa. I immigrated to the US in 1984, building a life and career in academic medicine, mental health, psychiatry and neuroscience. I have also spent 8 years in Australia, directing research programs, and returned to US in 2017. The toughest of Gaugin’s three questions is “What Am I?” I have a natural curiosity, and always wanted to see and understand the world, and make a difference. I do not prejudge; I look at things objectively, and that is my starting point to build new structures and to improve existing ones. Nothing keeps me going more than to conceive something new and then to make that a self-sustaining reality. For instance, I brought Molecular Psychiatry from an idea in my head to the number one psychiatry journal worldwide in 13 years. Over the years, I developed many ideas into established facts or new structures: Examples include conceptualizing in the 1980’s immune-related molecules as intrinsic to the brain where they are differentially regulated and modulate behavior; demonstrating that a dispersed mass of fat cells, through leptin, regulates minute-to-minute neuroendocrine function, and that leptin is pro-cognitive; proposing and developing for over 20 years genomics and precision medicine approaches to address health disparities, and establishing multiple structures to foster academic career development for members of underrepresented groups.Where am I going? My energy, curiosity, and desire to make a difference are stronger than ever. As the world undergoes vast changes at an unprecedented pace, I believe that, by using emerging tools and reaching out in more just and inclusive ways, we can further advance medicine and promote health. A question I am addressing now is: Can COVID-19 directly cause new onset of major depression or psychosis due to the direct effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the brain?

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State University of New York Upstate Medical University

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Syracuse, NY, US
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  • State University Of New York Upstate Medical University
    Distinguished Professor
    State University Of New York Upstate Medical University
    Syracuse, Ny, Us
  • Genomic Press
    Ceo & Publisher
    Genomic Press Jan 2024 - Present
    New York, Usa
    Embarking on a pioneering venture, Genomic Press is launching its first journals in 2024. What is our raison d’être? We bring about a transformation in scientific publishing by fully engaging with and supporting authors. Our fair-cost platform will offer rapid and decisive review of high-quality work. We will then use contemporary tools to actively disseminate your work worldwide. We bring together scientists from multiple disciplines, providing the most exciting, emerging science an unparalleled stage for visibility.
  • State University Of New York Upstate Medical University
    Distinguished Professor
    State University Of New York Upstate Medical University May 2019 - Present
    Syracuse, New York Area
    Establishing an externally-funded research program, currently supported by NIMH/NIH and the CART Foundation. Our recent grants are focused on our discovery of two new elements in the brain response to stress: PHF21B and CWC22. Prior to this work, PHF21B and CWC22 had been neither identified nor studied in the central nervous system (CNS). We are currently mechanistically dissecting the roles of PHF21B and CWC22 in the brain responses to stress, social behaviors, aging, and addiction. Additionally, I have recently started a program to address long-term CNS and mental health outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection, also known as long COVID. I am committed to securing funding to launch a new center of excellence in this area that is critically affected by health disparities. Recently, Springer Nature has highlighted our editorial “Climate change and mental health” as the leading article for their Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13: Climate Change - https://tinyurl.com/5xf2ywjy.
  • State University Of New York Upstate Medical University
    Senior Vice President And Executive Dean, College Of Medicine
    State University Of New York Upstate Medical University Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
    Syracuse, New York, United States
    • Oversaw all basic science and clinical chairs/service chiefs in the College of Medicine (COM), who reported to me.• Key contributor to Middle States accreditation.• Led the 2019 LCME review, resulting in full 8-year accreditation, following a past history of major probation in 2011. • Conceptualized and launched a major new medical school curriculum re-design. • Established and led the COM's Strategic Plan. Within that plan, I specified tangible diversity and inclusion metrics as well as a process that continuously assessed their progress over time, under the aegis of the Diversity Committee and the Executive Committee, both of which I established. • Created a new & comprehensive diversity strategy, with the following elements:o Led a concerted effort of advocating for under-represented minority (URM) students; as a result of those efforts, for the first time we had a 100% match rate; all our African American students matched at leading residency training programs. o Established a structure of requiring Diversity Advocates in all Departments.o Created a new position of Assistant Dean for Cultural Competence. o Created a position for a Director of COM Career Development, with a focus on URM students.o Provided resources for the hiring of Upstate's only African-American basic scientist.o Created the Upstate Accelerated Scholars Program as a highly successful pipeline for COM admission, with novel BS+MD pathways in new partnerships with multiple undergraduate colleges within SUNY, in the state, and nationwide with HBCU’s.o Sponsored pre-admission workshops (PAW) for 20 Native American students from across the US. o Formed a new Disability Inclusion Taskforce. o Appointed an all-female External Scientific Advisory Board, with members of the National Academies of Science and Medicine. o Asked all our departments in 2018-2019 to preferentially invite women leaders as speakers, as role models for early career faculty members.
  • Springer Nature Group
    Editor-In-Chief, Molecular Psychiatry
    Springer Nature Group 1996 - Present
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Conceptualized and executed strategies to attract high-quality research, as well as high-end media awareness and marketing strategies that propelled Molecular Psychiatry, in 13 years, from non-existence to being ranked as the number 1 psychiatry journal worldwide in 2010. With an Impact Factor of 15,992, we are currently the highest ranking psychiatric journal that publishes basic and clinical science relevant to psychiatry. Edited and published 42 articles by nine Nobel Prize winners, 27 of them in the last four years. Edited and published 42 articles by nine Nobel Prize winners, 27 of them in the last four years.
  • Springer Nature Group
    Editor-In-Chief, Translational Psychiatry
    Springer Nature Group 2011 - Present
    Conceptualized and launched Translational Psychiatry as the first sister journal of a leading psychiatry or neuroscience journal. Developed strategies to attract high-quality research, as well as to promote engagement with the scientific community, building the journal from inception to its current position as the highest ranking online only psychiatry journal.
  • Springer Nature Group
    Editor-In-Chief, Discover Mental Health
    Springer Nature Group 2021 - Present
    London, England, United Kingdom
    I am the founding Editor-in-Chief, of Discover Mental Health, a new Springer Nature journal, launched in 2021. Discover Mental Health is an open access, community-focused journal publishing research from across all disciplines involved in the transdisciplinary field of mental health, including theoretical and fundamental sciences as well as clinical sciences, public health, and socioeconomic, biological and environmental factors.
  • Flinders University
    Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor
    Flinders University Jul 2015 - Present
    Bedford Park, South Australia
  • Flinders University
    Strategic Professor Of Psychiatry
    Flinders University Apr 2013 - Jun 2017
    Bedford Park, South Australia
  • Springer Nature Group
    Editor-In-Chief, The Pharmacogenomics Journal
    Springer Nature Group 2001 - Jul 2020
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Conceptualized, launched and was the founding Editor-in-Chief, The Pharmacogenomics Journal for 20 years (2001-2020).
  • Sahmri
    Deputy Director And Leader, Mind & Brain Theme
    Sahmri 2013 - Jun 2017
    Adelaide, Australia
    Having dual roles at Flinders University (see appointments above) and at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), established the South Australia Mind-Brain Translational Research Program, as a joint effort of both institutions. • Fostered new careers, including mentorship towards new leadership roles. • Fundraising: Over $6 million were externally raised by the Mind & Brain Theme, including a donation from one of Australia’s most successful businessmen and philanthropist, Mr. Lang Walker (https://tinyurl.com/w4s9roq), to start Australia’s first adult stem cell program for brain disorders. • Appointed by Australia’s Minister of Health Member to serve on the Mental Health Expert Reference Group that provided a review of mental health programs and services across Australia.
  • Australian National University
    Director, John Curtin School Of Medical Research
    Australian National University 2009 - 2013
    Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
    Set up the first graduate training program in Translational Medicine in the Asia-Pacific region to support academic career development in translational research. • Established the John Curtin Medical Foundation, raising $2 million in year 1. • Promoted a process of renewal and rejuvenation by recruiting outstanding new investigators (first external recruitments at JCSMR in several years), retaining promising early- and mid-career researchers, and transitioning to retirement 12 academics on continuing (tenured) appointments.
  • University Of Miami,  Miller School Of Medicine
    Miller Professor Of Psychiatry
    University Of Miami, Miller School Of Medicine 2006 - 2009
    Miami, Florida, Usa
    Chairman of Psychiatry Associate Dean for Project Development (Translational Science)Started the institution wide Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at the University of Miami (UM), which became NIH funded ($20 million/year), and which has had its focus on “culturalized medicine,” defined as a culturally targeted, sensitive and appropriate approach to health care. • Obtained NIH funding as PI for a university-wide K30 inter-disciplinary training program in translational investigation that contained a Masters in Translational Science (K30RR03028), focused on developing academic leadership in members of underrepresented minority groups. • As Chief, Psychiatry Service, Jackson Memorial Hospital, oversaw the busiest Psychiatric Emergency Center in the country. • Increased annual county funding to the UM Department of Psychiatry through our Annual Operating Agreement (AOA) with Jackson Memorial Hospital from $1.4 to $2.3 million.• Established a predominantly Hispanic Working Group of community members who provided ongoing advice and input to our translational programs.
  • Ucla
    Professor Of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences And Medicine/Endocrinology
    Ucla 1999 - 2006
    Los Angeles, California, United States
    Other roles at UCLA:Vice-Chairman, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of MedicineAssociate Program Director, General Clinical Research CenterFounding Co-Director, Center for Pharmacogenomics.Founding Director, Graduate Training Program in Translational and Clinical InvestigationFounding Director, Mentored Clinical Pharmacology Research Scholars ProgramFounding Director, UCLA CLinical Pharmacology Training ProgramAs a tenured, state-funded, professor of psychiatry and medicine-endocrinology at UCLA, I was Founding Director of four NIH-funded training structures - initially seed-funded by 8 departments and that involved six other schools: the UCLA Schools of Nursing, Dentistry, Public Health, Arts & Science, RAND Graduate School and Charles R. Drew University. Those programs represented pioneering efforts that brought together departments and schools and which became key elements of the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, that I was invited to direct in 2005. • Simultaneous PI of 8 NIH research, training and program development grants. • Co-directed (with my wife and collaborator, Prof. Ma-Li Wong, MD, PhD) the UCLA Center for Pharmacogenomics, focused on precision medicine and health disparities in Mexican-Americans. • Led a Spanish-language research program on depression in Mexican-Americans, funded by multiple NIH grants.• NHGRI/NIH funded member of the International Haplotype Mapping (HapMap) Consortium. • With NIGHRI and NIGMS funding, led the team that collected the Mexican-American and Han DNA samples that are available to researchers worldwide, deposited at three Coriell Institute collections.• Having worked closely with the 31st Congressional District Office of Hilda Solis (subsequently, Secretary of Labor in the Obama administration and currently a member of the LA County Board of Supervisors), we received Certificates of Commendation from the US Congress and the California Legislature.
  • National Institute Of Mental Health
    Chief, Unit On Clinical Studies, Clinical Neurodocrinology Branch, Intramural Research Program
    National Institute Of Mental Health 1993 - 1999
    Bethesda, Maryland, United States
    Directed a new inpatient and outpatient translational research program, conducting molecular neurobiology, translational, and clinical research.
  • Yale University School Of Medicine
    Fellow, Instructor, And Assistant Professor Of Psychiatry
    Yale University School Of Medicine 1990 - 1993
    Other positions at Yale:Fellow and Subsequently Instructor in PsychiatryHead, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Veterans Administration Medical CenterDeveloped and co-led an inpatient teaching and research program focused on affective disorders.

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