Snezana Milanovic, M.D., M.Sc. is a Board Certified Psychiatrist who has held a faculty appointment as an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 02/05.

Dr. Milanovic’s early training focus was in natural sciences. She won the First Prize at Federal Competition in Chemistry twice, and was subsequently awarded the City of Belgrade Foundation for Talented Scholars Fellowship. She earned her M.D. degree from the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Dr. Milanovic was supported through her clinical clerkships and subsequent graduate courses by the Republic of Serbia Foundation for Talented Scholars Fellowship Award. Dr. Milanovic earned her M.Sc. degree in Neuroscience with emphasis in Behavioral Immunology from the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY and the Central Institute for Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany. Dr. Milanovic was a Guest Researcher at Department of Neuroendocrinology, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Goettingen, Germany. During her postdoctoral training in basic neuroscience, Dr. Milanovic pursued projects with an emphasis on molecular mechanisms of memory and stress responses. Dr. Milanovic completed residency training at Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. She was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award as a Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) trainee at Yale Department of Psychiatry. During her residency training, Dr. Milanovic’s clinical work focused on psychosis and women’s issues in psychiatry. She continued postdoctoral training as a Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) fellow at McLean Hospital and Advanced Neuroimaging fellow at MGH/BIDMC.

As a basic neuroscience researcher, Dr. Milanovic has been an author on a number of journal publications, abstracts and poster presentations. A part of these authorships rose from her thesis in behavioral immunology of stress response, developed at the Immunology Research Center, International Reference Laboratory for Neuroimmunomodulation, Belgrade, Serbia. The bulk of basic neuroscience authorships have been focused on behavioral, anatomical and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory. This work was essential in development of Dr. Milanovic’s interest in translational research, with a focus on cognition in psychiatric disorders. Dr. Milanovic was awarded the NARSAD Young Investigator Award in 2003. She developed a paradigm aimed at defining emotional modulation of encoding, by using psychopsychological and cognitive measurements. A subsequent on-line (fMRI) study will probe into brain networks in schizophrenia and affective psychosis through integrating psychophysiologic measurements with imaging and behavioral data.