Dr Joaquín Galvañ graduated in Medicine from the University of Murcia and completed his Psychiatry residency training at Son Espases University Hospital in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He currently works as a clinical psychiatrist and researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health of the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón and at the Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute (IiSGM), where he is part of the psychosis research group and actively involved in national and international projects focused on first-episode psychosis, clinical high-risk states and early-onset psychosis.
He has been awarded a competitive Río Hortega predoctoral contract funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III and is currently undertaking his PhD at the Complutense University of Madrid. His doctoral research focuses on clinical predictors of outcomes following a first-episode psychosis, with a particular interest in neurological and systemic markers in psychotic disorders. His research interests are mainly oriented towards translational research in psychosis, pharmacovigilance, and the study of somatic and neurological symptoms in adult and child and adolescent populations.
Dr Galvañ has experience in international collaborative projects and multicentre clinical trials, including collaborations with institutions such as Yale University, Harvard University, the University of Groningen and King’s College London. He has presented multiple communications at national and international conferences and actively contributes to scientific publications in psychiatry and mental health.
During his residency training, he completed a research placement at the Centre Expert Schizophrénie of Fondation FondaMental (Paris, France), a European reference centre for schizophrenia research. He has also achieved a Master’s Degree in Bioethics from the Catholic University of San Antonio, and pursued additional training through national and international university programmes in psychopathology, neuropsychopharmacology, clinical epidemiology, biostatistics and child and adolescent mental health.
In addition to his research activity, he has been involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and previously served on the Teaching Committee of the Multiprofessional Mental Health Training Unit of the Balearic Islands. He is a member of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health and the Madrid Society of Psychiatry. He also collaborates with the Recover Foundation – Hospitals for Africa, supporting mental health training initiatives in Cameroon.