Training Grants

The Alicia Koplowitz Foundation awards training grants every year.
Here you can consult the lisf of beneficiaries of the Grants awarded by the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation.

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2026

Joaquín Galvañ García

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

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2026

Gisela Sugranyes Ernest

Gisela Sugranyes is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Research Coordinator at the Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. She is also a Senior Group Leader and Coordinator of the Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience Area at IDIBAPS, member of CIBERSAM, and part of several international networks and consortia. Her research focuses on understanding the biological bases of psychosis, studying children and adolescents at risk or

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J.A. Mestre
2026

Josep Antoni Mestre Quetglas

I graduated in Medicine from the University of Lleida and completed my Psychiatry residency at Hospital Universitari Son Espases (Mallorca) from 2022 to 2026. During my training, I focused on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, completing the specialized Track A and dedicating my final year to this field. My clinical interests lie in child and adolescent mental health, with a particular emphasis on early detection and intervention.

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Rosa María Brito Rey
2025

Rosa María Brito Rey

Graduated in Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid, I am currently completing my residency training in Psychiatry at the University Health Complex of Salamanca (2021–2025), specializing in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. I have had the privilege of undertaking rotations at renowned institutions such as Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Hospital Niño Jesús, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Hospital Puerta de Hierro, and UPMC Pittsburgh (USA), acquiring comprehensive clinical

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José Angel Álvarez Vázquez

José Ángel Álvarez Vázquez holds a degree in Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid. During his undergraduate studies, he was selected to participate in the Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute at Yale University (USA), an intensive program focused on medical ethics and global health. He is currently in his fourth year of Psychiatry residency at the University Hospital Complex of Ferrol, following the specialized training pathway in Child

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Nuria Laherrán Cantera

Nuria Laherrán Cantera, a native of Valladolid, earned her medical degree from Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid), where she first embraced an international perspective by volunteering in the Surgery and Emergency Department at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (Ghana) and completing an Internal Medicine observership at Holy Cross Hospital (Fort Lauderdale, USA) during the summer of 2017. From 2021 to 2025, she trained as a Psychiatry trainee

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Cecilia Sanjuan Ortiz

She obtained her medical degree from the University of Valencia in 2020, completing her fourth year at the University of Münster (Germany) through the Erasmus Programme. She is currently completing her psychiatry training at La Fe Hospital in Valencia, within the official specialization track in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, which she will finish in July 2025. During her training, she completed the Interuniversity Master’s Degree in

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Clàudia Aymerich Nicolas

Clàudia Aymerich was graduated in Medicine from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, later specializing in Psychiatry at Basurto University Hospital, in Bilbao, where she now works as a child and adolescent psychiatrist and a researcher. She is also a PhD Candidate at the Basque Country University and a member of GCV22/1/SAM in CIBERSAM. She holds a Master’s degree in Drug Dependencies from the University of

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Juan Pablo Chart Pascual
2024

Juan Pablo Chart Pascual

He obtained his medical degree from the University of Navarra through the international programme. He subsequently completed his residency in Psychiatry at Hospital Universitario Araba. During his training, he actively participated in research and teaching activities at the hospital and at the Bioaraba Health Research Institute, and also collaborated as a member of Group 10 of CIBERSAM. During this period, he was awarded the prize for

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Alejandro Marcos

Alejandro Marcos, born in Salamanca and raised in Toledo, has an extensive personal and academic career both in Spain and abroad. Graduated in Medicine from the University of Valladolid, he completed his training in Psychiatry at the Hospital Nª Sª de Candelaria (S/C Tenerife) following the Itinerary A in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has undertaken external rotations in several child and youth mental health care

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Javier Sánchez Cerezo

Javier was born in Caceres, Spain, and is currently working as a psychiatrist in London, UK. He obtained his medical qualification from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, doing one year abroad at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He did the training in Psychiatry at Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón in Madrid, with a special interest in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. At the end of his training,

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María Rodríguez García

María Rodríguez García (M. Rodriguez-Ayllon for Citations/databases) studied Sports Sciences at the University of Granada. In 2020, she obtained her Ph.D. in Biomedicine at the same University. During her Ph.D., María explored the role of physical activity in the brain health of children with overweight or obesity. Specifically, she observed more active children have better white matter development. Additionally, she carried out a systematic review and

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Alejandro Albán Porras Segovia

Alejandro Porras Segovia is a specialist in Psychiatry and a doctor in Clinical Medicine and Public Health by the University of Granada. He trained as a psychiatrist at the University Hospital San Cecilio of Granada (2014-2018) and carried out his first international stay in 2016 at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. In 2018 he started working as an attending psychiatrist at

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Víctor Pereira Sánchez

Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist. He obtained his medical degree (MD) in 2014 at Universidad de Navarra, in Spain, where he also completed a residency program in psychiatry in 2019 and obtained a doctorate in philosophy (PhD) in 2021 with an international thesis which merited ‘Summa cum laude’. He completed a Fundación Alicia Koplowitz fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at New York University

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Ignacio Málaga Dieguez

Dr. Málaga is the Head of the Pediatric Neurology Unit at Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (HUCA). He obtained his medical degree at Oviedo University, where he also accomplished his doctorate degree (extraordinary prize). After completing his 4-year specialization in Pediatrics at HUCA, he completed a 2-year training in pediatric neurology at Hospital San Juan de Dios de Barcelona (fellowship program – Master’s degree title at

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Fernando Estévez López

Fer (Motril, Granada) did his BSc on Sport Sciences at University of Granada. In 2015, he was awarded with a PhD studentship from the Spanish Government. His predoctoral research focused on identifying factors that are associated with anxiety, depression and somatic symptoms (such as pain and fatigue) in adults with chronic diseases. In particular, he focused on factors that provide resilience and adaptation to these symptoms

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Marta Ybarra Zavala
2022

Marta Ybarra Zavala

Since completing her fellowship in Pediatrics and Neonatology, she has built her career at La Paz University Hospital in Madrid. Her career path focused on neonatal neurology and neuroimaging techniques has led her to specialize in advanced neonatal cranial Doppler ultrasonography obtaining the European EurUSbrain accreditation in 2018. She actively participates in national and international research projects involving neonatal brain and systemic hemodynamics as well as

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Luis Miguel Martínez Agulleiro

Employment history Psychiatry Resident at Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Ferrol (2018­–2022).   Education Master’s Degree in Clinical Reasoning & Practice, Universidad de Alcalá (2017–2018). Degree in Medicine, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (2011–2017).   Research experience Subinvestigator in SERENE and FER Loxapine studies, on the use of inhaled loxapine in patients with psychomotor agitation. Collaborator in the development of the VOICES tool for the cognition rehabilitation

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Macarena Franco Ruedas

Degree in Medicine and Medical Doctor specialising in Psychiatry from the University of Cordoba, Spain. She has completed an internship in paediatric emergency medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia (USA). She has also developed her Erasmus scholarship in Innsbruck, Austria, at the Medizinische Universität Hospital. She has been a resident in Psychiatry at the Hospital Dr. Rodríguez Lafora, between 2017 and 2021. During this

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Andrés Antonio Román Jarrín
2021

Andrés Antonio Román jarrín

Degree in Medicine from the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil in Ecuador. He specialised in Psychiatry at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra. His complementary training includes the official Master’s Degree in Initiation to Mental Health Research at the Biomedical Research Centre for the Mental Health Network at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Master Psychopharmacology Program at the Neuroscience Education Institute. In addition, she

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Teresa Bellido
2021

Teresa Bellido Bel

Professional experience: 2017-2021 Psychiatry Training Program (Residence) at the “Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa” in Zaragoza, last year in specific Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Units and International Internship in Maison de Solenn – Hôpital de Cochin in Paris); 2019-2021 Extraordinary Teaching Assistant Professor. Studies: Master Degree in Genetic, Nutritional and Environmental Conditions of Growth and Development; Master in Clinical Practice in Child and Adolescent Psychiatrics. Research

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Mireia Solerdelcoll Arimany

Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Barcelona and specialist in Psychiatry at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (2015-2019). During the residency, she carried out a training itinerary focused on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and performed a five-month traineeship at the Recognition and Prevention (RAP) Program at Zucker Hillside Hospital of New York under the supervision of Prof. Christoph U. Correll. She was actively

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Silvia Gadea del Castillo

Medical Doctor. Psychiatry Resident at Complejo Asistencial de Segovia, Spain (2017-2021). Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry during her residency, reaching a total of 16 months of specialization in this field. Complementary training in Family and Systemic Therapy; University Expert in Gut Microbiome. Granted by the Spanish Foundation of Psychiatry and Mental Health (FEPSM) in 2019 for an international internship (Sydney, Australia, Thomas Walker Hospital, Child,

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Fernando Estévez López

FER (Motril -Granada-, 1987) did his BSc on Sport Sciences at University of Granada (2010). In 2015, he was awarded with a PhD studentship from the Spanish Government. His predoctoral research focused on identifying factors that are associated with symptoms of anxiety, depression and somatic (such as pain and fatigue) in adults with chronic diseases. In particular, he focused on factors that provide resilience and adaptation

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Victor Pereira Sánchez

Psychiatrist in New York. Originally from Pontevedra, he obtained his Medical Degree (2014) and Specialty in Psychiatry at University of Navarra, with a track in child and adolescent psychiatry. Between 2019-2021 he has been a Fundación Alicia Koplowitz Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, New York, with clinical, research, and teaching roles. His research areas are neuroimaging of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and

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2020

Javier Sánchez Cerezo

Javier Sánchez Cerezo studied Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid. He studied one year of Medicine at the Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany (ERASMUS Programme). Specialist in Psychiatry by the Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital in Madrid where he completed the training itinerary on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. During residency, he was able to rotate in different programs of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: in the

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Silvia Sánchez Marco

Graduate in Medicine from the University of Zaragoza, Erasmus program at Université de Rennes 2 (Rennes, France). Master´s Degree in Genetic, Nutritional and Environmental Factors in Growth and Development and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Zaragoza. Condicionantes genéticos, nutricionales y ambientales del crecimiento y desarrollo y Doctora en Medicina por la Universidad de Zaragoza. She completed her pediatric residency at Miguel Servet University Hospital

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Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo

Medicine degree at the University of Navarra. Specialist in psychiatry at the Gregorio Marañón University Hospital. He has completed the following MSc and specialist studies: MSc in Initiation to Research in Mental Health by the University Complutense of Madrid; MSc in Psychotherapy, Integrative Perspective by the University of Alcala; Specialist in Psychoanalytic Clinic and Psychotherapy, by the Pontifical University of Comillas, MSc in Forensic Psychiatry by

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2020

María Dolores Picouto González

Dr. María Dolores Picouto is a Consultant Psychiatrist working in the Adolescent In-patient Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health of the Gregorio Marañon Hospital. She graduated in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2001. She completed her residency in Psychiatry at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital, between 2002 and 2006. From 2008 to 2010 she trained in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Paula Padierna González

Medicine Degree at Universidad del Pais Vasco and Specialist in Psychiatry at Hospital de la Princesa in Madrid, where she completed the sub-specialization in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has carried out clinical rotation at the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services at the following spanish Hospitals: H.U. Gregorio Marañon , H.U Marqués de Valdecilla and H.U. Basurto. Beneficiary of a Grant by the FEPYSM in

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2020

Laura Moreno Fernández

Graduated in Medicine (2011) and in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2013), in Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She was specialized in Psychiatry at Hospital Ramón y Cajal in Madrid, (2016). During her residency she has done some internships in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Servicies of the area; furthermore she has done two international internships, in La Maison de Solenn, hospital for adolescents in Paris, mentored by Dra.

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Braulio Manuel Girela Serrano

Braulio has obtained his medical qualification from the University of Granada, having also spent one year studying at the Victoria University of Manchester, and one year at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He then trained in Psychiatry at Santa Ana Hospital and San Cecilio University Hospital in Granada, developing a research interest in the area of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. During his residency, he spent 6

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Daniel Natera de Benito

Daniel Natera de Benito is a Pediatric Neurologist specializing in Neuromuscular Disorders. He develops his clinical and research activity at Neuromuscular Disorders Unit of Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona. He obtained his PhD in Medicine with summa cum laude honors from the University of Barcelona for his doctoral thesis «Congenital Miasthenic Syndromes in Spanish Population: Clinical and Molecular Characterization and Therapeutic Response». In 2017, he

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Mireia Solerdelcoll Arimany

Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Barcelona and specialist in Psychiatry at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (2015-2019). During the residency, she carried out a training itinerary focused on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and with a grant from Fundación Española de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental (FEPSM), she performed a five-month traineeship at The Zucker Hillside Hospital of New York, under the supervision of

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Julio David Vaquerizo Serrano

Medicine Degree, (University of Alcalá) and Official Degree of Psychiatry at Gregorio Marañón Hospital, with a formative itinerary in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Master in Legal Psychiatry, (Complutense University of Madrid) and Expert in Affective Disorders, (University of Alcalá). I have worked in an outpatient service with patients with severe mental disorder at Puente de Vallecas Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center; in an Autism

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Teresa Gómez Alemany

Graduated from the University of Barcelona in Medicine and Surgery (2007-2013), she further specialized in General Psychiatry in Benito Menni Hospital, where she undertook the training itinerary in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2015-2019). She has an academic background with several periods of study and training abroad, including: a) ERASMUS program at “Karolinska Institutet” in Stockholm, Sweden (2012), b) IFMSA Program at “Hospital Civil Fray Antonio Alcalde”

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Victor Pereira Sánchez

Medical Doctor (M.D.) by the Universidad de Navarra (2008-2014) and Specialist in Psychiatry by the Clinica Universidad de Navarra (2015-2019), with a training itinerary enriched on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He also studied the Masters’ Degree in Integration and resolution of clinical problems in Medicine at Universidad de Alcalá (2014-2015) and has received continued medical training in several local, regional, national and international courses and conferences

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Ana Pascual Sánchez

Graduated in Psychology in 2014 at University of Salamanca. Collaboration scholarship in Personality, Assessment & Psychological Treatment, Faculty of Psychology, during the last course. Degree extraordinary award. Currently she is studying a PhD at the same University. She did her residency in Clinical Psychologist at Ramón y Cajal Hospital (2015-2018), and was awarded with the medical area end of residency extraordinary award. She did an extern

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Fernando Aguirregomoscorta Menéndez

I obtained my Medical Degree at the University of the Basque Country and did my residency at Basurto University Hospital, specializing in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. During my last year I worked at the Adolescent Inpatient Unit, the Child and Adolescent Outpatient and Consult Services, as well as at a school-based Day Centre in Madrid as part of my external rotation. I have experience in Support

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Jana Domínguez Carral

Pediatric Neurology consultant at Hospital Universitario Parc Taulí, Sabadell, with special interest in complex pediatric epilepsies. Coordinator of the multidisciplinary group of diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of Angelman syndrome patients, within the unit of genetic-based cognitive-behavioral minority diseases unit at Parc Taulí Hospital. Specific training in Pediatric Neurology following the Pediatric Neurology Society (SENEP) program, in Hospital Niño Jesús (Madrid) and Hospital Sant Joan de Deu

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Alba Vilaplana Pérez

Alba has an MSc degree in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy from the Universitat de València. She completed her 4-year residency in clinical psychology in 2017 at the Hospital Lluís Alcanyís, Xàtiva. Over the years, she has worked as a child and adolescent psychologist in several centres in Spain, France, and the US. Currently, Alba holds a 2-year Alicia Koplowitz advanced training fellowship, which she is developing

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María Andreu Pascual

Degree in Medicine in University of Valencia (2006-2012). Specialist in Psychiatry. She did MIR training in Asturias, Oviedo from June 2012 to February 2013. She did her residency in Psychiatry in Lluís Alcanyís de Xàtiva, Valencia. During her residency she rotated in different electives related with Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, such as Hospital La Fe and family therapy in Hospital de La Ribera (Alzira). She chose

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Olga Santesteban Echarri

Dr. Santesteban-Echarri completed a bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Deusto, and a Master’s degree and Ph.D. at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She specialized in Clinical Psychology at the Institut Pere Mata University Hospital. Currently doing a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Calgary of Canada in the research program of youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis and severe mental illness. Author

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Carolina Pastor Jordá

Medical specialist in Psychiatry. Degree in Medicine from the University of Valencia (2007-2013). She completed the fifth year of Medicine at the University of Turku (Finland) through the ERASMUS program. She completed her Psychiatry residency from 2014-2018, at the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid. During the residency she has worked several months in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Adolescent

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2018

Sandra Gómez Vallejo

Degree in Medicine, University of Barcelona, Hospital Clinic. Erasmus Scholarship Program – Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany). Medical Specialist in Psychiatry – Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain. External Rotation – STAR Center for ASD and NDDs at UCSF (San Francisco, USA). Collaborator in the Innovation in Teaching Project – Design of tools for active learning of Human Genetics and its application in the Medicine

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Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo

Medicine degree at the University of Navarra. Specialist in psychiatry at the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon where he chose the child and adolescent training itinerary. He has completed the following master and specialist studies: “Master in Initiation to Research in Mental Health” by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; “Master in Psychotherapy, Integrative Perspective” by the Universidad de Alcala; “Specialist in Psychoanalytic Clinic and Psychotherapy “,

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Rocío Roselló Miranda

Specialist in Psychiatry at the Hospital Arnau de Vilanova-Llíria (Valencia). During his training as a resident he has made rotations in different units of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, depending on his hospital (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center of Paterna) and in the Adolescent Hospitalization Unit of reference in the province, in the Hospital La Fe. Also, and continuing in this line of training, she has

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Braulio Manuel Girela Serrano

Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Granada, studying fourth year at the Victoria University of Manchester (Erasmus Program) and fifth year at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (SICUE/SÉNECA Program). Medical Specialist in Psychiatry trained at the Hospital Santa Ana de Motril (Granada) and the Hospital Universitario Clínico San Cecilio de Granada. He has made stays in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit of

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Antonio Rodríguez Moreno

Dr. Antonio Rodríguez-Moreno is the Head of the Cellular Neuroscience and Plasticity Laboratory at the University Pablo de Olavide, in Seville, Spain. Following a degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Seville, Dr. Rodríguez-Moreno received his PhD degree in Neurobiology and Molecular Biology from the Cajal Institute and the Autonomous University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain. During a postdoc at the University Pablo de Olavide,

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María del Mar Rivas Rodríguez

Degree in Psychology, Autónoma University of Madrid (2007). After finishing her degree, she obtained a scholarship from the Autónoma University of Madrid, participating in various national and international projects at the Affective Disorders Multidisciplinary Research Team. Clinical collaborator at the Department of Psychiatry during this period. Specialist in Clinical Psychology, Hospital Universitario de Getafe (2017), with specific training in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Specialist in

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Inés López Álvarez

Degree in Psychology by the University of Salamanca, achieving the Master’s Degree in Neurosciences by the Basque Country University. Specialist in Clinical Psychology by Hospital Universitario La Paz (Madrid), where she has been involved in different research groups, being the author of diverse presentations in scientific congresses. During her internship period she has joined multiple courses about psychopathology and psychotherapy, either for adults and young people,

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Laura Carballeira Carrera

Degree in Psychology by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Specialized in Clinical Psychology by Hospital Universitario La Paz (Madrid). Her interest on child and adolescent mental health led her to carry out several clinical rotations on this field, including: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Consultation and Liaison Child Psychiatry Service (Hospital La Paz), Child Day Hospital (Hospital 12 de Octubre), Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit (Children’s

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Alba Vilaplana Pérez

Alba has an MSc degree in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy from the Universitat de València. She completed her 4-year residency in clinical psychology in 2017 at the Hospital Lluís Alcanyís, Xàtiva. Over the years, she has worked as a child and adolescent psychologist in several centres in Spain, France, and the US. Currently, Alba holds a 2-year Alicia Koplowitz advanced training fellowship, which she is developing

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Laura Sevilla Cermeño

Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid, where I graduated with honors in high school. I studied through the Erasmus program at Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2008. Specialist in Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Getafe, with specific training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry through various rotations (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center of Getafe, Adolescent Unit of the General University

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María Andreu Pascual

Degree in Medicine in University of Valencia (2006-2012). Specialist in Psychiatry. She did MIR training in Asturias, Oviedo from June 2012 to February 2013. She did her residency in Psychiatry in Lluís Alcanyís de Xàtiva, Valencia. During her residency she rotated in different electives related with Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, such as Hospital La Fe and family therapy in Hospital de La Ribera (Alzira). She chose

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Alba Ancochea Vilaplana

Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona, she specialized in Psychiatry at the Hospital de la Santa Creu y Sant Pau. During her residency she rotated in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service of the Mutua de Terrassa and did an external rotation of 3 months in the Westminster Child and Adolescents Mental Health Service. She has been trained in Systemic Family Therapy

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Eva Gutiérrez Delicado

Medical Degree at the Autónoma University, Madrid, Spain. Residency Program in Neurology at San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. Fellowship in Epilepsy and Genetics of Epilepsies at the Epilepsy Unit, Fundación Jiménez Díaz-UTE, Madrid, Spain. Training in Neuropediatrics and Infantile Epilepsy at Necker Enfants Malades Hospital and Adolphe Rothschild Foundation, Paris, France. Interuniversity Diplome in Childhood Neurology (DIU), Amiens University, France. Doctoral Thesis “Clinical and Molecular

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Ana Pérez Vigil

Dr Pérez holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona and specialised in psychiatry at the Clínic Hospital, Barcelona. After finishing her specialization, she received an advanced training fellowship by the Alicia Koplowitz foundation (2015-2017) to be part of the research team at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neuroscience / Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. During

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Daniel Bergé Baquero

Daniel Bergé is specialist in psychiatry at Hospital del Mar (2002-2006), where he currently works as consultant psychiatrist in the hospitalization unit and in the first-episode psychosis program that he coordinates. He has developed his research in the Neuroimaging Research Group at IMIM and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in the study of first episodes of psychosis and neuroimage. In 2010 he completed his PhD on functional

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Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo

Medicine degree at the University of Navarra. Specialist in psychiatry at the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon where he chose the child and adolescent training itinerary. He has completed the following master and specialist studies: “Master in Initiation to Research in Mental Health” by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; “Master in Psychotherapy, Integrative Perspective” by the Universidad de Alcala; “Specialist in Psychoanalytic Clinic and Psychotherapy “,

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Irene Esteban Cornejo

Irene Esteban Cornejo, Ph.D (Segovia, 1988), earned her bachelor in Sport Sciences (2010) and her doctoral degree from at Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain (2014). Her predoctoral research was focused on examining the influence of lifestyle behaviors and health-related markers on academic and cognitive performance in children and adolescents. She has published more than 25 scientific articles indexed in the JCR and she did several research

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Xavier Estrada Prat

Graduate in Medicine and Surgery from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is a specialist in Psychiatry at Hospital Clínic Universitari de València. From 2007 he was an assistant psychiatrist at the Granollers Adult Mental Health Center and the Acute Psychiatric Unit at the Granollers Hospital. Since 2009, he has been an associate psychiatrist at the Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Addiccions (INAD, Barcelona), carrying out a

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Raquel Cecilia Costa

Raquel Cecilia Costa holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona at Hospital Vall d’Hebrón in Barcelona and she completed her residency in psychiatry at Hospital de Vic (Barcelona). Dr. Cecilia currently works as an assistant psychiatrist, in the Eating Disorders Unit of the Psychiatry Department, and also collaborates with the Endocrinolgy Department at the Pediatric Hospital Sant Joan de Déu

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Ainoa Mateu Mullor

Specialist in Clinical Psychology. She graduated in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2010 obtaining the Extraordinary Award. He obtained the number 1 in the call for Resident Internal Psychologists (PIR) and did his residency at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. He rotated in different devices of the Department of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychology of the same hospital and made a stay

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Juan Armando Paris Pérez

Doctor-Surgeon from the University of Zulia and Bachelor of Philosophy from the Catholic University Cecilio Acosta, both in Venezuela, he has specialized in psychiatry at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, where he leads two research projects on Suicidal Behavior and High Risk Mental States in adolescent population. During her residency she has made stays in different units of the main centers in Child and

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Marta Casanovas Espinar

Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Autonomous University of Barcelona (2003-2009). Specialist in Psychiatry at Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona (2010-2014). Beneficiary of a Fellowship for Psychiatry Residents Overseas Training (destination centre: Prodrome Assessment Research and Treatment Program for Adolescents ad Early Psychosis Clinic, UCSF, San Francisco, USA) from the Spanish Psychiatry and Mental Health Foundation (June-September 2013). Advanced Certificate in English (CAE) -Cambridge University. 2014. Diploma

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Lorena Chanes Puiggros

Degree in Psychics, University of Barcelona; doctorate in Neuroscience, Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris 6). Her research work has focused on studying the neural bases of attention, perception and conscience. The Short Stay Fellowship will be an extension of her post-doctoral stay in Boston (Massachusetts), where she has explored the role of limbic brain areas in the cortical processing of information. She wishes to expand

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Marta Carulla Roig

Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Specialist in Psychiatry, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge. In the last year of her residency she took up an observership position at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, to further her education in affective disorders at the Molecular Imagine and Neuropathology Division under the supervision of Dr Michael Grunebaum. Since 2011 she has been a junior

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Marina Romero González

Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University of Granada. (2002-2008). Specialist in Psychiatry, Hospital Regional e Universitario de Málaga. (2009-2013). International Doctorate, University of Malaga (Cum Laude) in Autism Spectrum Disorder. September 2014. Master’s in lifelong ADHD. Alcalá de Henares. Madrid. (2012-2013) Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Maudsley Hospital, King’s College London), thanks to an advanced fellowship from the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation for research and clinical

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Irene Esteban Cornejo

Irene Esteban Cornejo (Segovia, 1988) has a Degree in Physical Activity and Sports Science (2010) from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her predoctoral research work focused on examining the influence of lifestyles and health-related markers in the academic and cognitive performance of children and adolescents, and she went on to do a doctorate in Physical Activity and Sports Science with the Autonomous University of Madrid (2014).

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Blanca García Delgar

Specialist in Psychiatry, Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona. During her residency, she furthered her education in child and adolescent psychiatry by taking a Master’s in Child-Youth Clinical Psychopathology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and performed multiple rotations in specialist units, including a stay at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London. In recent years she has worked as an investigator on international projects on tics in

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Marta Jaúregui González-Guija

Degree in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zaragoza, 2012. Erasmus Programme at University of Strasbourg 2011 (teaching in French). Residency Public Competition. MIR Asturias, Oviedo, 2013. Psychiatry Residency (2013-2017), currently in fourth year, Hospital San Pedro de Logroño. During these four years I have been performing various rotations in the Neuropaediatrics, Psychiatry and Child-Youth Psychology units of this hospital, as well as a three-month stay

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Sara Marco Sánchez

Work experience: 2013/Present. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón (Madrid). 4th year Psychology Resident Educations: 2015/Present. Complutense University of Madrid. Studying for a Doctorate in Psychology. 2013/2014. Spanish Association of Clinical Psychology Cognitive-Behavioural Health Master’s in Clinical Practice. 2008/2012. University of Zaragoza. Degree in Psychology. End of Degree Extraordinary Prize. Publications: “Object relations (group and couple) as a therapeutic element in ASD”. 26th Mental Health Congress; Spanish

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Ana Pérez-Vigil

Dr Pérez holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona and specialised in psychiatry at the Clínic Hospital, Barcelona. After finishing her specialization, she received an advanced training fellowship by the Alicia Koplowitz foundation (2015-2017) to be part of the research team at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neuroscience / Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. During

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Marina Fábrega Ribera

Specialist in Psychiatry at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, during her residency she took different training courses in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, while obtaining the Diploma of Specialization in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Childhood and Adolescence extended by the UNED (December 2014-May 2015) and the University Expert in Bipolar Disorder by the Institute of Continuing Education of the University of Barcelona, Editorial Médica Panamericana (September 2013-April 2014).

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Daniel Ilzarbe Simorte

Graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Zaragoza, he completed his residency in Psychiatry at the Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology Teaching Unit of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (2011-2015). During the same she did several rotations in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, including one in the Recognition and Prevention (RAP) Program in the Child and Adolescent Hospitalization Unit of the Zucker Hillside Hospital (New York

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Álvaro Frías Ibáñez

Dr Frías (Valencia, 1981) has a degree in Psychology from the University of Valencia (1999-2004) for which he earned an Extraordinary Prize. He obtained the title of Clinical Psychology Specialist via the Psychology Resident Intern system at Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia. He was awarded a doctorate in Psychology in 2015 from the Blanquerna Faculty of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences (FPCEE) of Ramón Llull University,

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Olga Puig Navarro

Dr Puig holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Barcelona and specialised in Clinical Psychology at Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, where she has been a Senior Specialist Associate in the Child-Youth Psychiatry and Psychology Department since 2007. She has a doctorate in Psychology from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona which she earned with a thesis entitled “Cognitive and Functional Impairment in

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Ana Belén Calvo Calvo

Dr Calvo holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Salamanca, a doctorate in Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid and a master’s in Research Methodology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She trained as a researcher at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service of the Gregorio Marañon Health Research Institute (IiSGM) at Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, with a predoctoral fellowship obtained

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Caridad Benavides Martínez

Dr Benavides holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid and is a psychiatry specialist at Complejo Hospitalario de Segovia. She was also a collaborating physician in Mlale, Malawi in 2009. She was a recipient of an Advanced Training Fellowship from the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation 2013-2015 to work at the Columbia University Medical Center’s Psychiatry Department where she was the Principal

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Lourdes Rocío García Murillo

Dr García holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Extremadura and specialised in psychiatry at Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro in Madrid. She performed a sub-specialisation in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Bellevue Hospital Center of New York University thanks to an advanced training fellowship from the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation (2013-2015). She completed her education with different postgraduate and master’s courses

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Laia Villalta Macià

Dr. Villalta holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona (UB-Hospital Clínic) and specialised in Psychology (Psychology Intern Resident system) through Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona. In the field of psychotherapy she works as a family therapist and took a master’s at the Family Therapy School of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and the Autonomous

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María José Parellada Redondo

With a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a doctorate of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Alcalá (Madrid) that earned a European Doctorate Mention, Dr Parellada received first prize for best doctoral thesis from the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry in 2006. She qualified as a psychiatrist from Hospital Doce de Octubre in Madrid and as a university

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Olga Santesteban Echarri

Dr. Santesteban-Echarri completed a bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Deusto, and a Master’s degree and Ph.D. at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She specialized in Clinical Psychology at the Institut Pere Mata University Hospital. Currently doing a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Calgary of Canada in the research program of youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis and severe mental illness. Author

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María José Parellada Redondo

With a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a doctorate of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Alcalá (Madrid) that earned a European Doctorate Mention, Dr Parellada received first prize for best doctoral thesis from the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry in 2006. She qualified as a psychiatrist from Hospital Doce de Octubre in Madrid and as a university

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Laura Pina Camacho

From Gregorio Marañón Hospital of Madrid. 1 month’s Fellowship in “INSERM Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Sainte-Anne”, Paris, France.

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Sandra Gallego Villalta

From “C.R.P. Nª Sra. del Pilar” of Zaragoza. 3 months’ Fellowship in NHS Foundation Trust, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, Harrow, United Kingdom.

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Itziar Baltasar Tello

From “Complejo Universitario Infanta Cristina” of Badajoz. 3 months’ Fellowship in University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA.

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Mar Grau Escrivá

From Hospital Clínic of Valencia. 6 months’ Fellowship in Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom.

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Pilar de Castro Manglano

From “Clínica Universitaria” of Navarra. 3 months’ Fellowship in Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience. New York University Child Study Center, New York, USA.

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Ayudas de Estancias Cortas 2022

AYUDAS DE FORMACIÓN ESPECIALIZADA EN NEUROPEDIATRÍA 2023

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AYUDAS PREDOCTORALES EN SALUD MENTAL INFANTO-JUVENIL 2022

SHORT-TERM GRANTS FORM

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Advanced Training Grants Form

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