Psychiatrist, MD, PhD. Trained at the psychiatric hospitals of Salt (Girona) and Valladolid, as well as at the Professional School of Psychiatry in Barcelona. Psychoanalysis with Marta Lázaro. Professor of Community and Preventive Psychology (University of the Basque Country). Professor of Psychiatry (University of Oviedo). Visiting professor at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Research stays in Paris, Lyon, Ghent, and Geneva. Former Director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Oviedo. Former Regional Director of Mental Health in Asturias. Former Mental Health Advisor for the PAHO/WHO in Central America, the Latin Caribbean, and Mexico. Humanitarian emergency missions with WHO in Haiti, Mexico, Guinea Conakry, Kosovo, Colombia, and Honduras.