Associate Professor
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
School of Medicine of the University of Barcelona from 1986 to 1992, Training in Psychiatry at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona from 1993 to 1996, PhD in 2002 at the University of Barcelona about the effect of depression on the progression of HIV-infection and on adherence to treatment. School of Philosophy in the University of Barcelona from 1987 to 1993.
Started to work as a Psychiatrist In Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. Chief of the Outpatient Clinic of the Psychiatry and Psychology Department of Hospital Clínic of Barcelona from 2009 to 2015 .Chair for Educational Affairs of the Clinical Institute of Neurosciences in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona from 2009 to 2017. Chief of the Inpatient Clinic of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology of Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and Medical Coordinator of Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona from 2016 to 2018. Director of the Mental Health and Addictions Programme of Catalonia since 2019. President of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health from from 2013 to 2017.
Since 1995, expertise and research in psychiatric and psychological disorders in severely ill medical patients, specifically, in HIV-infected people.
Member of the Organization of AIDS Psychiatrists and secretary of the HIV/AIDS Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatry Association. Founding member of the International Symposium on Psychiatry and HIV.
Co-author of the Spanish Guidelines for the Clinical Management of Neurocognitive Disorders associated to HIV and for the Clinical Management of Psychiatric Disorders in people with HIV .