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 Liaison Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service, in the ASD outpatient program (AMI-TEA), in the Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program (PRISMA), and in the Adolescent Inpatient Unit. He also participated in the Mental Health Transition Program in the Puente de Vallecas Mental Health Center.

He completed the master’s degree “Introduction to Mental Health Research” organized by CIBERSAM and imparted by the Complutense University of Madrid and the Expert in “Psychotherapy (Integrative Perspective)” imparted by the Alcalá de Henares University. He has also taken numerous national and international accredited courses on General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

He has participated in the writing of an international book chapter on developmental psychopathology and has published several clinical cases in books. He has actively participated in different conferences and congresses of General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, national and international, presenting various posters and other communications to them.

At the end of his residency, he was able to spend three months in the “Path” program of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). This is a treatment program for young people and their families who are at risk of developing psychosis or experience a first episode of psychosis.