Dr. José Manuel Menchón, psychiatrist & director at Centre Mèdic BM

Current Positions:

Director and psychiatrist at Centre Medic BM.
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Specialist in psychiatry.
Head of Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge.
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona.
Head of group of Psychiatry and Mental Health Research Institute of Bellvitge (IDIBELL).
Head of research group in psychiatry CIBERSAM (Center for Biomedical Research Network on Mental Health), Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
Scientific Director of the Research Institute of Bellvitge (IDIBELL).
President of the Spanish Psychiatry and Mental Health Foundation (FEPSM)
Head of the ENIGMA-OCD Group (Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta Analysis)
Chair of the Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders Network (OCRN) of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP)
Coordinator of the Anxiety, Psychosomatic and Anxiety Disorders Program for the Center for Biomedical Research Network on Mental Health (CIBERSAM)
Coordinator of the Official Master's Degree in Initiation to Research in Mental Health at the University of Barcelona (UB)

Other merits:

Chair of the International College of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS).
Ex-President of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry.
Ex-member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry.
Associate Editor of the Spanish Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health
Former Editor of the journal Biological Psychiatry
Professional Excellence Award in the category of 'Public Health, Mental Health and geriatric care', awarded by the Council of Medical Colleges of Catalonia (2004)

Research and Publications:

Main fields of research: depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, phobias.
Author or coauthor of 12 books
Authored or coauthored 84 book chapters
Author or co-author of 146 scientific papers in international journals.

Dr. José Manuel Menchón