Dr. Roel Ophoff is a professor of Psychiatry and Human Genetics at the UCLA School of Medicine. His research laboratory is located within the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics and he is member of the Brain Research Institute at UCLA. Dr. Ophoff obtained is PhD in human genetics at the Leiden University in The Netherlands studying the molecular basis of familial migraine. He completed his postdoctoral training in neurogenetics at UC San Francisco. He joined the UCLA faculty in 2002.