Training, teaching and community work.
A career devoted to building mental health services that are closer, more continuous and respectful of people’s rights.
Education
- 2014–2018
Residency in Psychiatry
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León · “Dr. José Eleuterio González” University Hospital
- 2025
Diplôme Inter-Universitaire: Santé mentale dans la communauté
Université de Lille · Université Paris 13 · WHO CC (CCOMS) · APHM Marseille
- 2017
Clinical placement
Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Paris
- 2006–2012
Doctor of Medicine (Médico Cirujano y Partero)
Universidad de Monterrey, School of Medicine
- 2013
Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Mental disorders
- 2019
Diploma in Therapeutic Accompaniment
The clinical practice of therapeutic accompaniment
Clinical & institutional work
Founder and coordinator
Therapeutic Accompaniment Centre (Day Hospital), UANL University Hospital
Replication of the Day Hospital model
In other states across Mexico
National community psychiatry curriculum
IMSS Bienestar
Community psychiatry strategy
Historic centre of Guadalajara
Work with CONASAMA and the CNDH
Independent National Monitoring Mechanism of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Teaching
- 2020–present
Professor of Psychiatry and Thanatology
Universidad de Monterrey
- 2023–present
Faculty, Psychiatry residency
IMSS-UDEM and UANL University Hospital
Associations & leadership
- 2020–present
President
Franco-Mexican Association of Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists
- 2024–present
Deputy Secretary
France–Latin America Psychiatry Coordination
- 2023–present
Vice President
College of Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology of Nuevo León
- 2021–present
President
Asociación Xontié A.C. Salud Mental
Lead for the cooperation agreement
UANL – Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences
Selected talks
- 2024
Icarus: the process of flight
International Conference on Art and its Benefits in Mental Health (WACP-COFALP-GHU), Paris
- 2024
Therapeutic continuity
Franco–Latin American Exchange (APAL-COFALP), Santo Domingo
- 2024
From the individual to the group
14th Franco-Cuban Congress, Cienfuegos
Specialised mental health care
World Mental Health Day, CONASAMA
- 2019
Les proches et les modalités de prise en charge
Congrès de Psychiatrie France – Amérique Latine, Paris
- 2019
National models of mental health care
27th Venezuelan Congress of Psychiatry, Caracas
Publications
Une invention propre à l’Amérique latine : l’accompagnant thérapeutique
L’Information Psychiatrique
Échanges de formation France – Amérique latine
L’Information Psychiatrique
- 2023
Franco-Mexican cooperation, past and present
Journal of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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