Dr. Corrado Garbazza

Clinical Research Physician & PhD Student
– Centre for Chronobiology
University of Basel 
– Sleep and Epilepsy Center
Neurocentro della Svizzera Italiana
Switzerland

Corrado Garbazza, MD, is a clinical research physician and PhD student working both at the Centre for Chronobiology of the University of Basel and at the Sleep and Epilepsy Center, Neurocentro della Svizzera Italiana, in Lugano (Switzerland).

After studying medicine at the Universities of Pavia (Italy) and Bonn (Germany), he entered sleep research in early 2011, by joining the Competence Center of Sleep Medicine of the Charité Medical University in Berlin. Since 2012 he has been in charge of the clinical outpatient service of the Centre for Chronobiology of Basel, focusing on the assessment and treatment of circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders and on the chronotherapy of affective disorders.

Currently, he is conducting a large multicenter study on sleep and circadian factors involved in perinatal depression and its treatment with bright light therapy.
Corrado happily joined the Early Career Researcher Network (ECRN) Committee in 2018, during the 24th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society in Basel.