Carlos Portera-Cailliau, MD,PhD

Dr. Portera-Cailliau was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. He obtained a B.A. in Biochemistry & Cell Biology from U.C. San Diego in 1990. He then attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and obtained an MD-PhD degree in 1997. 

After completing a residency in Neurology at The Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, where he was Chief Resident in 2001, Dr. Portera-Cailliau moved to Columbia University for a movement disorders fellowship under Dr. Stanley Fahn.  He also completed post-doctoral fellowships at Columbia and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

He joined the UCLA faculty in 2005, where he leads an NIH-funded laboratory that investigates the circuit basis of neurodevelopmental conditions like autism and intellecutual disability. He has joint appointments in the Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology. He attends the movement disorders clinic on Fridays.