About
Alberto Zaba, MD is the psychiatry voice on Instituto Assaly's São Paulo team. He trained in medicine at FMUSP, completed psychiatry residency at USP's Instituto de Psiquiatria, coordinates the Liga de Dependência Química at FMUSP, and holds a staff psychiatry role at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein. His additional ABRAN nutrology training supports a mental-health model that looks at psychotherapy, medication when needed, stress adaptation, metabolic balance, sleep, and environmental load together.
What to Know
Signature approach
Zaba combines psychodynamic psychotherapy with preventive psychiatry. A consult can include standard psychiatric assessment and pharmacotherapy, but the source material also points to metabolic balance, stress physiology, toxic-load reduction, and aging modulation as part of the clinical reasoning. The goal is a steadier mental-health plan, not a symptom-only visit.
What sets them apart
- USP/IPq foundation. Training through FMUSP and Hospital das Clínicas places him inside one of Latin America's strongest psychiatry ecosystems.
- Addiction-medicine teaching role. His FMUSP chemical-dependency league work brings substance-use expertise into the preventive-care setting.
- Psychiatry plus nutrology. The ABRAN postgraduate layer gives him a nutrition-and-metabolism vocabulary that most psychiatry profiles do not carry.
Before You Book
- Visit type: In-person psychiatric consults and psychotherapy at Jardim Paulista, with pharmacotherapy when clinically appropriate.
- Mental-health depth: Useful for stress, mood, attention, addiction, and mind-body cases where lifestyle or metabolic factors are part of the picture.
- Languages: Portuguese is native; English and Spanish are listed as usable in his academic profile.
- Care team: Nutrition, endocrine, sleep, and cardiometabolic questions can be coordinated with Assaly colleagues when needed.
Expertise
Focus areas
Patient types
Credentials
Education
MD, Medicine
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP) (2007)
Postgraduate Specialization, Nutrology
ABRAN — Associação Brasileira de Nutrologia
Residency
Psychiatry
Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas, FMUSP
Additional certifications
Postgraduate Specialization in Nutrology
ABRAN — Associação Brasileira de Nutrologia
Brazilian medical society postgraduate specialization in nutrology — clinical nutrition for physicians.
Coordinator — Liga de Dependência Química, FMUSP
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
Faculty role coordinating the substance-dependency academic league at USP medical school — student-run clinical-teaching group focused on addiction medicine.
Homeopatia Fundamental + Atualização em Homeopatia
FMUSP (university extension)
150 hours of university-extension coursework in homeopathy at USP medical school during medical training.
Affiliations
Thought Leadership
Books
- Manual de Diabetes Mellitus · Atheneu, 2010
Publications
- Analysis of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) and its receptor (AMHR2) genes in patients with persistent Müllerian duct syndrome · Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabologia, 2012
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