Specialized in Resistant Depression, Bipolar Disorder & Iiaison Psychiatry

Profile

International fellow at the American Psychiatric Association. Currently a Lecturer of Liaison Psychiatry and Personality Disorders at the University of La Salle in Mexico City. Is extensively involved in medical education. Is part of the bureau of speakers at Eli Lilly, Carnot, Silanes Laboratorio, Lundbeck  and Roche pharmaceuticals.

Professional Activities

2020 Writer of the book Art and Madness” first edition

2020 Columnist at section Art and Culture in the National Newspaper “La Razón” since 2014 Where I write about art and mental illness to fight against  the stigma about mental health.

2017 Faculty Member of Lundbeck Foundation at Denmark.

2017 Roche Pharmaceuticals

. Member of the Advisory Board and Member of the Speaker bureau since 2010.

2017 Ely Lilly and Company . Member of the advisory Board and member of the Speaker Bureau since 2004.

2017 Professional practice of psychiatry and psychotherapy from 1993 to the present date.

2017 Since 1996 to current date private practice as a Psychiatrist at the Hospital Angeles del Pedregal, in Mexico City, Mainly treating depression and bipolar disorder.

2017 Named one of three representatives in Mexico for the international study currently under development: Relationship between sunlight and the age of onset of bipolar disorder – an international multisite study. Coordinated by Prof. Dr. Michael Bauer

2017 Lecturer of liaison psychiatry and personality disorders at the university La Salle since 1993.

Merits

2016 International Fellowship Award at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and made Ambassador for APA in Mexico.

1998 Honorable mention in the master’s degree in General Psychotherapy.

Publications

2021 Variations in seasonal solar insolation are associated with a history of suicide attempts in bipolar I disorder co-author

2021 Author of chapter 2 What is bipolar disorder of the book Mental health and psychiatry

2021 Author of the chapter Comprehensive management of patients with rapid cycling bipolar disorder in the book Selected topics in neuroscience and psychiatry

2020 Writer of the book Art and Madness first edition

2019 Journal of Psychiatric Research Association between solar insolation and a history of suicide attempts in bipolar I disorder co-author

2018 co-author of chapter 16 The life of Martin Ramirez and John Nash related to art, academia and science, as well as symptomatic remission and functional recovery in schizophrenia of the book Functional Remission and Recovery

2017  Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Solar insolation in springtime influences age of onset of bipolar I disorder co-author

2016 Book  “Psychiatry in Medicine Chapter XXI & XXX co-author

2015 Archive of Neuroscience Vol. 20 No. 1. Article titled “Olanzapine and fluoxetine combined as therapy for treatment-resistant depression: a systematic review.

Commission

Founding Member of the International Society of Bipolar Disorders in Mexico 2008 (ISBD)

Education

2019 -2024 Re certified  as Specialist in Psychiatry: Mexican Council of Psychiatry (CONACEM)

1998 Master in General Psychotherapy: Mexican Psychoanalytic Association (APM), Mexico City

1991 Specialization in Psychiatry: University La Salle, Mexico City

1989 Bachelor in Surgical  Medicine: Autonomous Metropolitan University