Dr. Gualtieri is the Medical Director of the North Carolina Neuropsychiatry Clinics in Chapel Hill and Charlotte. Dr. Gualtieri was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at Columbia. He graduated from Columbia P&S in 1969, and was an intern at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. His original ambition was to be a surgeon, but after three years in service as a general practitioner in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, he decided to be a psychiatrist. Dr Gualtieri trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at the University of North Carolina. He was on the faculty at UNC for eleven years, where his research interests were in psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatry. During this time, his research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. His work on tardive dyskinesia has been widely cited.
His first area of concentration was the study of children and adults with ADD and developmental disabilities. Then, his research group developed an interest in the problem of brain injury. For seven years, he was the corporate medical director for Rebound, Inc, a national chain of brain injury rehabilitation centers.
Dr. Gualtieri founded NC Neuropsychiatry in 1988. He continues to have an active clinical practice, seeing children and adults with a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders. An increasing proportion of his patients are middle-aged people with mild cognitive impairment, and older patients with dementia. Dr. Gualtieri and his partners conduct clinical trials for many of the major pharmaceutical manufacturers. They have also developed a computerized neurocognitive testing battery, “CNS Vital Signs.”
www.cnsvitalsigns.com. Dr. Gualtieri is the author of more than 120 peer-reviewed medical publications and three monographs. His latest book, Brain Injury and Mental Retardation, Neuropsychiatry & Psychopharmacology (2002) is available from Lippincott publishers.
Dr. Gualtieri lives in Chapel Hill with his wife, Frances, who used to be a hospital pharmacist at UNC. Now she is the proprietor of Restaurant La Residence in Chapel Hill. They have three sons, and three daughters adopted from China.