Dr. Olivetti is originally from São Paulo, Brazil and earned his BS in Applied Biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology prior to matriculating as an MD/PhD student at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his doctoral thesis on Infantile Spasms Syndrome under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey L. Noebels. He has published extensively, presented at international conferences, and earned numerous awards for his work in translational neuroscience. Currently, he is a research track Psychiatry intern at Columbia University. He is the father of a beautiful little girl and plays blues harmonica on his free time.