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Juan José López-Ibor Aliño
He was born in Madrid on 17 December 1941 and is the father of four children
Current positions:
- Psychiatry Professor and Head of the Psychiatric Ward of the Hospital Universitario San Carlos , which belongs to the Universidad Complutense.
- Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Spain (with its headquarters in Hospital Universitario San Carlos).
- Numbered Academic of the National Academy of Medicine.
- Academic of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Zaragoza.
- Member of the National Psychiatry Commission.
- Advisor (Temporary Adviser) of the World Health Organisation. Member of the Task Force for the 10th edition of the International Classification of Illnesses of the WHO. Director of the Coordinating Centre for Studies in the Spanish language for the Classification. Director of the Task Force for the revision of ICI-10, Chapter F.
- Member of the European Commission Task Force for the Decade of Research on the Brain.
- Graduate and Doctor of Medicine of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (He received Special Mentions in 26 subjects y a First Class Honours in the remaining subjects). He received the Extraordinary Prize for Undergraduate Students and also the Extraordinary Prize for Doctorate Students. He specialised in Neurology and Psychiatry. He completed his Psychiatry training in Frankfurt University (Germany) and in Maudsley and Saint Batholomew Hospitals (London) and in Rives de Prangins Hospital (Switzerland).
He has worked as Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Universidad Complutense, Collage Lecturer in Oviedo University, Psychiatry Professor in Salamanca University and in the University of Alcalá de Henares as well as Head of the Psychiatry ward in the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid.
He is also an author and, alone or in collaboration with others, has written 14 books and 92 articles en books by other authors. He has published over 215 articles in scientific magazines (most of them foreign magazines) and has given over 600 lectures and talks in scientific conferences and meetings.
He is President of the World Psychiatry Association (which has a membership of over 120,000 psychiatrists the world over) and was Secretary General of the WPS during the period from 1986-1996 and President Elect (1996-1999). He is President of the PTD Committee, founding member and member of the Executive Committee of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He was also President of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine, of the Spanish Society for Biological Psychiatry and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, of the American Psychiatric Association, of the Deutsche Gesselschaft für Psychiatrie, of the Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum, member of honour of the Societé Medico-Psychologique, of the Societá Italiana di Psichiatria, of the Egyptian Psychiatric Association and of the Sociedad Chilena de Neurología, Neurocirugía y Psiquiatría as well as a member of several others (The Society of Clinical Psychiatrists, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Neuropsychopharmakologie und Psychiatrie (A.G.N.P.), International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Society for Liaison Psychiatry, American Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, International Council on OCD and Related Disorders, etc.).
He is the Editor and member of the Editorial Committee of several Scientific Reviews (Actas Luso-Españolas de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Ciencias Afines, Comprehensive Psychiatry, Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, Integrative Psychiatry, General Hospital Psychiatry, Journal of Psychopharmacology, European Psychiatry, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Human Psychopharmacology, Neurology, Psychiatry and Brain Research, Neuropsychobiology,...). He was President of the Organising Committee of the X World Psychiatry Congress of the WPS (23-28 August 1996, Madrid), President of the Scientific Committee of the XI World Psychiatry Congress of the WPS (6-11 August 1999, Hamburg).
In January 1998 he was awarded the Civil Health Order with the category of “Encomienda” with a commemorative inscription.
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