Paolo Fusar-Poli is an Italian and British medical doctor, psychiatrist, and Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience,[1] King's College, London and at the Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia.

He is Professor and Chair of Preventive Psychiatry at KCL, Associate Professor at the University of Pavia,[4][5] Head of the Head of Early Psychosis: Intervention and Clinical-detection (EPIC) lab,[6] Academic Lead of the Early Psychosis Workstream of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative,[7] Chair of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Network for the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Mental Health Promotion,[8] and Section Coordinator of the Italian Medical Society of Great Britain.

His research focuses primarily on the early detection and prevention of severe mental disorders such as psychosis or schizophrenia in young people.

[13] Dr. Fusar-Poli has also performed research on the Truman Syndrome, with its symptoms are found before and during the onset of severe mental disorders such as psychosis and schizophrenia.

[14] He has suggested that the "Truman explanation" is a result of the patients' search for meaning in their perception that the ordinary world has changed in some significant but inexplicable way.