Marsal Sanches, MD, PhD, FAPA

Biography

Dr. Sanches is a board-certified psychiatrist with specific interests in mood disorders, neuroimaging, psychopathology, and medical education. He is currently a Professor at the Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School-UT Health Science Center at Houston and an Attending Psychiatrist at the John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center, where he is also the Associate Director for Research.

Dr. Sanches has previously occupied different leadership positions in academic psychiatry, including Director of Medical Student Education and of Research Education at The Menninger Clinic, Director of the Research Track Psychiatry Residency Program at McGovern Medical School, Associate Director of the UT Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas.

He originally completed his psychiatric training in Brazil and started his academic career at his alma mater, where he occupied different leadership positions, having worked as a Residency Director, Undergraduate Course Director, and Division Chief. After moving to the United States, he completed a new residency training at UT Health Houston, and achieved board-certification in the US.

Dr. Sanches has extensive teaching and research experience, having authored or co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as numerous abstracts. He is the co-editor of four books on mood disorders, general psychiatry, and medical education. Dr. Sanches is also very interested in the limits between psychopathology and normality, having lectured often at local, national, and international meetings on different topics, including mood disorders, psychopathology, transcultural psychiatry, and the interface between psychiatry, humanities, and creativity. He is an Associate Editor of the journals Minerva Psychiatry, Debates in Psychiatry, and the Journal of Affective Disorders. In addition, he is on the editorial board of several journals, including Psychopathology and Academia Mental Health and Well-Being.