Dr. Daniele Fabio Zullino
Department Head Doctor in Addiction Service and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Daniele Zullino is Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry at the University Hospitals of Geneva and Professor of Addiction Psychiatry at the University of Geneva. He studied medicine in Basel, and received postgrade training mainly in Zürich, Basel and Lausanne. From 1996 to 2005 he was attending physician at the University Hospitals of Lausanne with research activities in clinical psychopharmacology and addiction medicine. In 2005, he was appointed director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry in Geneva, where he integrated heroin-assisted treatments into the general opiate-based programs and opened the first internet-addiction program in Switzerland. He has the author of more than 240 scientific papers and book chapters.
Research group has 3 main research tracks: (1) Impulsivity, automatism and motivation, (2) Behavioral addictions and related disorders, (3) Global Mental Health in addiction medicine.