Jorge López Castromán
Prof Jorge López Castromán: Jorge López-Castromán is a Professor of psychiatry at the University of Montpellier (France). He received his PhD in 2008 from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). He is the current head of the emergency and liaison psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry departments at the University Hospital of Nimes (France). He has also been the co-chair of the Suicidology and Suicide Prevention Section of the European Psychiatric Association for several years.
His lines of research are organised around the improvement of assessment, prevention and treatment of suicidal behaviours and affective disorders. He has published more than 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 10 book chapters. He participates as principal investigator or coordinator in several national and international projects. He is part of the research team on "Environment, Biomarkers, Neuropsychiatry'" of the Functional Genomics Institute in Montpellier, France, and CIBERSAM, Spain.