Yanli Luo, MD, PhD

Dr. Yanli Luo has joined Department of Psychiatry at the UMass Chan Medical School (UMass Chan) and UMass Memorial Health Care as a visiting scholar. She is collaborating with Xiaoduo Fan, MD, MPH, MS, Director of the UMass Psychotic Disorders Clinical and Research Program. Dr. Luo is Vice Chair of Department of Psychiatry, Tongji Hospital, Shanghai, China, and associate professor of Psychiatry at Tongji University.

Dr. Luo's research interests include the mechanisms and treatment of persistent somatoform pain disorder, as well as clinical pain in patients with schizophrenia or other major mental disorders. Dr. Luo has practiced psychodynamic psychotherapy for many years, and also has extensive experience in consultation-liaison psychiatry. Dr. Luo is also interested in cross-cultural psychiatry; she is passionate about educating the general public on mental illness awareness and treatment.

Dr. Luo completed her medical degree at Tongji University Medical School. She was then trained by Professor Mingyuan Zhang, and earned her PhD degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University Medicine School, Shanghai, China.