Claudio N. Soares MD, PhD, FRCPC, MBA

Dr. Soares is a Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Queen’s University School of Medicine in Kingston, Ontario (Canada) and Executive Lead for Strategy, New Partnerships for the Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression (CAN-BIND); he also leads CAN-BIND’s Research Platform for M-Health, Innovation and Technology. Dr. Soares is a trained psychiatrist from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he earned his medical degree and completed his Ph.D. work on estrogen effects for the management of depression in midlife women. He further pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in Reproductive Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he later served as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director for Research for the Perinatal Psychiatry Program. Dr. Soares relocated to Canada in 2004, recruited by McMaster University. During his tenure at McMaster he led the Women’s Health Program and the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Division. Before joining Queen’s School of Medicine in 2016, Dr. Soares earned MBA degrees from Queen’s/Smith School of Business and Cornell University School of Management.