Biography

• Professor and Pat R. Rutherford, Jr., Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
• Director, UTHealth Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders
• Executive Director, UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Campus (John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center and Harris County Psychiatric Center)
• Chief of Psychiatry, Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center

Jair Soares, M.D., specializes in bipolar disorder, depression, brain imaging and psychopharmacology. His research includes discovering potential differences in the brains of people with bipolar disorder and the impact of pharmacological therapies on the brain using imaging.