de Jesus | Psychiatry | School of Medicine

Dr. Danilo de Jesus MD, MSc.

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Assistant Professor

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ResearchGate link

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danilo-De-Jesus/research

Dr. Danilo de Jesus is a staff psychiatrist and assistant professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Queen's University. He completed medical school at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in 2003. He subsequently entered the residency training in psychiatry which he completed in 2007. He completed a master’s degree in the Schizophrenia program at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 2010, and research and clinical fellowship training at the University of Toronto in 2014. He then became an assistant professor at University of Toronto and staff psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), where he worked until 2019. In 2020 he joined the Department of Psychiatry at Queen's University as the clinical lead of the acute inpatient unit at Kingston General Hospital. In 2023 he joined Providence Care Hospital where he currently works as a community psychiatrist with a focus on schizophrenia and mood disorders.

Dr. de Jesus' main research interest is the neurophysiology and treatment of various psychiatric disorders using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). He has been involved in several studies using TMS to study the role of cortical inhibition and plasticity as potential pathophysiological mechanisms in schizophrenia, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. More recently he has been involved in studies using photobiomodulation (PBM) as a treatment for major depressive disorder.

ResearchGate link

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danilo-De-Jesus/research

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