Paolo Fusar-Poli is a Professor of Preventive Psychiatry at the Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London (KCL), where he heads the Early Psychosis: Intervention and Clinical-detection Laboratory (EPIC Lab). He is also a consultant psychiatrist in the Outreach And Support In South-London (OASIS) mental health service at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, one of the oldest and largest preventive services worldwide. Much of his research utilises evidence-based medicine, clinical prediction, neuroscience and experimental therapeutics and aims to develop new and effective strategies to improve the prevention of mental disorders.
He is author of about 400 publications in PubMed journals, with h-index of 94 (up to 2021), invited speaker and/or chairman in several national and international scientific conferences and principal investigator or co-investigator of national and international grants focused on the prevention of mental disorders. He chairs national and international clinical research networks for the prevention of mental disorders.
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 – Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science)
2019 ranked as the number two expert in psychosis in the world (top 0.004% out of 49,886 ranked scientists up to 2021)
2012 and 2019 External Advisory, DSM-5 and DSM-5TR Psychosis Working Group, US.
Preventive psychiatry
Early interventions
Youth mental health
Promotion of good mental health
Clinical prediction
Neurosciences
Evidence Based Medicine
Phenomenology