Sudhakar Selvaraj, MD, PhD, is an Associate professor and the Director of the Depression Research Program at the UTHealth Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Houston. He completed his psychiatry residency and doctorate at University of Oxford and fellowship training at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, London. He is interested in understanding the biology of mood disorders and biomarkers for personalizing treatments in mood disorders. He has substantial experience in psychopharmacology and brain PET and MRI imaging techniques. He is applying clinical neuroscience approaches to understand neuropsychiatric symptoms after stroke and epilepsy. He has won several awards, published >75 manuscripts and co-edited a book "Mood Disorders: Brain Imaging and Therapeutic Implications". His research is funded by NIMH, SAMHSA and UTHealth.