María Gabriela Repetto Lisboa

MD (P Universidad Catolica de Chile);
Pediatrician (University of Wisconsin-Madison, EEUU);
Clinical Geneticist (Children´s Hospital , Boston, EEUU).

I am Professor of Genetics at Facultad de Medicina, Clínica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile and researcher at the Institute of Sciences and Innovation in Medicine at this institution.

My work is focused on genetic causes and modifiers of human diseases, with special emphasis on Rare Diseases (RD), which are conditions of low individual incidence, but that cumulatively affect 5-6% of the population. Within these RDs is 22q11.2 chromosome microdeletion syndrome, a condition that causes multiple congenital abnormalities and neurodevelopmental problems, being the highest know genetic risk factor for development of psychosis . It also has neurodegenerative manifestations, such as early onset Parkinson’s disease.

Reconstruction of images and quantitative magnetic resonance images from scarce data. The two most important applications are: diffusion and susceptibility imaging.
Although the techniques are useful in any organ, the most important application is in the brain.
In particular, I am interested in using prior information to find spectral and directional information (for example, to reconstruct susceptibility tensors based on information from the diffusion tensor).

Juan Pablo Undurraga studied medicine at the P. Universidad Católica de Chile.

He did his specialty in psychiatry at the Hospital Clinico de Barcelona and obtained his PhD in Medicine at the University of Barcelona. He was also a research fellow at McLean / Harvard Hospital in Belmont, MA.

He currently works as Head of the Psychiatry Service of the German Clinic UDD and in the Early Intervention Program at the Dr J. Horwitz Barak Psychiatric Institute in Santiago, Chile.
He is interested in clinical research, particularly the early psychosis, mood disorders and psychopharmacology.