18h – Antidepressant Treatment in MajorDepressive Disorder (MDD)

Chairman of the Department of Mental Health and Sensory Organs, Chief of
Medical Services of the Division of Psychiatry, and Residency Training
Director at the University of Siena School of Medicine, Italy
Professor Andrea Fagiolini is currently Chairman of the Department of
Mental Health and Sensory Organs, Chief of Medical Services of the Division
of Psychiatry, and Residency Training Director at the University of Siena
School of Medicine, Italy.
Previously, Professor Fagiolini spent over 10 years on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh
Medical School, PA, USA, where he served as Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical
Director of the Bipolar Disorder Centre and the Depression and Manic Depression Prevention
Program.
Professor Fagiolini’s research interests include pharmacological treatment of mood, anxiety and
psychotic disorders as well as treating and preventing physical comorbidity in patients with
mental illness. He has published more than 400 books and peer-reviewed papers primarily
focusing on the pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders.
Professor Fagiolini received his medical training from the University of Pisa School of Medicine
and completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Modena, Italy.

Clinical Psychiatrist at two Private Medical Centres in Thessaloniki and
Larissa, Greece
Dr Stavroula Bargiota is a psychiatrist-psychotherapist. She holds a MSc
degree in primary health care and a PhD in psychopharmacology.
She works as a Clinical Psychiatrist at her own two private medical
centres in Thessaloniki and Larissa, Greece. She has worked for years
as Lead Clinical Psychiatrist at the Community Health Clinic of NeapoliSykies Thessaloniki.
She has also worked as Honorary Specialist Registrar and Visitor Researcher at South London
and Maudsley NHS Trust and at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s
College, London, UK. She is a Scientific Associate at the Medical School of Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki Medical School and Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Thessaly,
Larissa, Greece. She is responsible for research projects as well as the training of medical
students, MSc students and resident psychiatrists.
Her research interests include treatment-resistant depression, biomarkers, linguistic indicators for
early detection of depression, resilience in depressive and bipolar disorders and early
intervention in psychosis. She is a TEDx speaker and she has been invited to numerous
scientific presentations in mass media as an expert in psychiatry.

Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Fribourg,
Switzerland
Professor Gregor Hasler was born in Basel, Switzerland. He is a Swiss
psychiatrist and psychotherapist.
From 2003 to 2006 he was a visiting research fellow at the Mood and
Anxiety Disorders Program at the National Institute of Mental Health
(supervisors: Wayne C. Drevets, Dennis S. Charney, Husseini Manji). He uses positron emission
tomography imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and pharmacological challenges to test
the reward system in mood, anxiety and eating disorders (dopamine, glutamate, serotonin).
Professor Hasler is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
His research is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and he has received
numerous awards for his scientific work, including the National Alliance for Research on
Schizophrenia & Depression (NARSAD) Independent Investigator Award and the Robert Bing
Award from the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.
He is the President of the Swiss Society for Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry and President of
the Swiss Society for Bipolar Disorder. His h-index is 50 (2022).