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CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Lauriello specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of psychotic disorders, most notably schizophrenia. He directs the UNM Schizophrenia Research Group, which focuses on clinical trials and neuroimaging. He was executive medical director of the UNM Psychiatric Center for nearly a decade, and he has served as a UNM site principal investigator for the Mental Illness and Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Institute, a consortium of universities, schools of medicine, brain research institutions and laboratories in Minnesota, Massachusetts and New Mexico.
MIND and the National Institutes of Health have provided continuous and significant funding for Dr. Lauriello's research. Last year the NIH awarded an $11.6 million grant to the Mind Research Network to develop a center he leads for studying the neural mechanisms of schizophrenia. He serves as principal investigator for that project as well as other studies involving atypical antipsychotic therapies, biomedical informatics, imaging and neurochemistry.
A graduate of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Dr. Lauriello completed medical school at Temple University in Philadelphia and residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital's Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. He completed fellowships focused on psychopharmacology and psychobiology in California at Stanford University and the University of San Diego. He had been with the University of New Mexico since 1994.
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