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 and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has completed external clinical rotations addressing severe mental disorders in children and adolescents, both in hospital and community settings, at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, CHUAC (A Coruña), and Sant Joan de Déu Hospital (Barcelona). During an international rotation, he deepened his psychotherapeutic training in eating disorders at the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires.
He has completed postgraduate studies in child and adolescent mental health and cognitive-behavioral therapy (UNED), along with additional training in transference-focused psychotherapy (OMIE) and family group interventions using the ProCC model.
He actively collaborates in the school-based suicide prevention program Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM), implemented in educational centers across Galicia. He is also part of the research team of a multicenter study on suicide prevention in adults, which explores personalized therapeutic interventions guided by digital phenotype and pharmacogenetics. He is the author of a peer-reviewed case report published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology and has presented scientific work at national and international conferences, receiving several awards.
In the field of health innovation, he co-developed the Galena Databook project, a tool for anonymized clinical data extraction, recognized in national digital health initiatives.
José Ángel was recently awarded an advanced training fellowship by the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation, which will allow him to join Imperial College London (St. Mary’s Hospital) as a clinical research fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry starting next September.