Benedicto Crespo Facorro is a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry with the School of Medicine at the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Universidad de Sevilla, in Seville.[1] Facorro is notable for his research work in the area of early psychosis and schizophrenia and for having led one of the first early psychosis early intervention programs in Spain (PAFIP)[2] for over two decades. Facorro is one of the only four researchers from Spain listed in the authors' collaborative network of the authors that published the greatest number of research papers on antipsychotics and schizophrenia over the last 50 years.[3]

Life

In 1997 Crespo-Facorro achieved a Doctor of Medicine with a doctorate in Psychiatry from Complutense University.[4] From 1997 to 2000 Crespo-Facorro worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iowa working on clinical and biological research on schizophrenia.[5]

Crespo-Facorro is currently Director of the Mental Health Department at Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío (Seville) (2019-), Professor in the faculty of medicine at University of Seville, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at University of Milan; and Adjunct professor of Psychiatry at Baylor University, Texas, USA; and Honoris Causa Professor at the Universidad Favaloro Argentina.[4]

From 2016 to 2021 was the Coordinator of the National Schizophrenia Program of the Spanish Psychiatric Research Network (CIBERSAM). He is a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Cantabria where he was Vice President and Scientific Director of the IIS Valdecilla-IDIVAL (Santander) (2017–2019).[6]

Editor

Crespo-Facorro is editor-in-chief of the Revista de Psiquiatria y Salud Mental.[7]

Selected publications

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A list of Crespo-Facorro's most important papers:[according to whom?]

References

  1. ^ "Benedicto Crespo Facorro". Directorio. Universidad de Sevilla. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  2. ^ Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto (14 December 2020). "Longitudinal Long-term Study (10 Years) of the Sample of First Episode of Non-affective Psychosis: PAFIP (10PAFIP)". Clinical Trials. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  3. ^ Sabe, Michel; Pillinger, Toby; Kaiser, Stefan; Chen, Chaomei; Taipale, Heidi; Tanskanen, Antti; Tiihonen, Jari; Leucht, Stefan; Correll, Christoph U.; Solmi, Marco (1 May 2022). "Half a century of research on antipsychotics and schizophrenia: A scientometric study of hotspots, nodes, bursts, and trends". Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 136: 104608. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104608. PMID 35303594. S2CID 247441255.
  4. ^ a b "Benedicto Crespo Facorro Jefe de Servicio de UGC Salud Mental HUVR. Catedrático de Psiquiatría". PsyNal (in Spanish). Seville: Virgen del Rocío University Hospital. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Benedicto Crespo-Facorro es nombrado Catedrático de Psiquiatría de la Universidad de Cantabria". Cobersam Iscii (in Spanish). Madrid: Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental. 23 February 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Benedicto Crespo Facorro appointed scientific director of IDIVAL". IDIVAL. Santander: Instituto de investigación marqués de valdecilla. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Editorial Board: Revista de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental - Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health". Elsevier.

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