Dr. Leonardo Fontenelle is currently Associate Professor of the Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There, he heads a team of researchers that have been undertaking studies in different areas of OCD over the last 20 years, including phenotypic features, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, neuropsychology and therapeutic management. He is also an Associate Investigator at the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) and also Professor (Adjunct) at Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Leonardo Fontenelle has published more than 200 articles and book chapters, including papers in peer reviewed psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and neurology journals. He has acted as a peer-reviewer for more than 30 international journals. Dr. Fontenelle is co-Chief Investigator of the Brazilian Research Consortium in Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, an initiative supported by a grant from the Brazilian Council for Scientific Technological Development that started in 2005 and generated the larger database of patients with OCD patients in world (n=1000 and growing). He is also the Director of the OCD Clinic at the Instituto de Psiquiatria da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IPUB/UFRJ). He is a member of the OCD and related disorders working group of the ICD-11 (WHO). Dr. Fontenelle clinical work has focused on the management of patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, such as OCD, body dysmorphic disorder, Tourette's syndrome. He trains residents and younger psychiatrists in the care of patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders. He is also a member of several national and international societies, such as the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Fontenelle is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychiatry Research Communications (elsevier) and former Editor-in-Chief of the Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria
Possui graduação em Medicina pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (1995) e residência médica em psiquiatria pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1998). Concluiu o mestrado (2000) e o doutorado (2003) em Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental no Instituto de Psiquiatria da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Realizou pós-doutorado no Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2005) e no Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre (MNC), da Universidade de Melbourne (2010). Atualmente é Professor do Departamento de Psiquiatria e Medicina Legal da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental (PROPSAM) da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Coordenador do Ambulatório de Transtorno Obsessivo Compulsivo do Instituto de Psiquiatria da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e do Programa de Especialização em Psiquiatria da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal Fluminense. Pesquisador Sênior do Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino (IDOR). Cientista de Nosso Estado (FAPERJ) atualmente e Pesquisador do CNPq nível 1D até 2022. Adjunct Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Editor consultivo do periódico Psychiatry Research e Editor-chefe do Psychiatry Research Communications. Membro do corpo editorial dos periódicos Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Comprehensive Psychiatry, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (JOCRD), Bulletin of The Menninger Clinic e Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria (RPB). Presidente do Conselho Científico da RIOSTOC. Ex-editor chefe do Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria (JBP) e ex-editor associado do JOCRD e da RBP. Revisor da International Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Foundation (IOCDF). É membro do Working Group on the Classification of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (Organização Mundial da Saúde) e ex-membro do Board of Directors do International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS). Tem experiência na área de Medicina, com ênfase em Psiquiatria Clínica, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo, transtorno dismórfico corporal, síndrome de Tourette, e transtornos de controle dos impulsos. Caso tenha interesse, por favor entre em contato com lfontenelle@medicina.ufrj.br
