Numerary Member

Ciencias Sociales: Doctor of Medicine

Date of admission: 9 September 2026

Admission speech: “AUTOGENESIS: de técnica antiestrés a ARTE DE VIVIR” (AUTOGENESIS: From Anti-Stress Technique to a Way of Life)

Reply speech: His Excellency Dr Francisco González de Posada

Distinguished Career: Psychiatrist and Full Professor, recognized for an extensive career in clinical practice, teaching, and research, with a prolific body of scientific work and outstanding contributions to university education and the direction of psychiatric research.

Full Professor of Psychiatry (NRP – 1421847224AO500)

Doctor of Medicine; doctoral thesis supervised by Frederick Andermann (Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University) and José Guimón (University of Bilbao). Specialist in Internal Medicine (Complutense University of Madrid; Prof. Arturo Fernández-Cruz Liñán). Specialist in Psychiatry (McGill University, Montreal) and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC).

Full Professor of Psychiatry at McMaster University (Canada), and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of La Laguna and the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Head of Psychiatry Services at Hamilton General Hospital (Ontario, Canada), the University Hospital of the Canary Islands (Hospital Universitario de Canarias), and the Jiménez-Díaz Foundation.

Supervisor of 30 doctoral theses, 16 specialized doctoral courses, and two specific university degree programs at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Author of 18 books (one translated into English, French, German, and Italian); coordinator of 6 specialized treatises; author of 209 scientific articles, 184 congress papers and presentations, and 115 lectures.

Awards and Honors: Silver Medal (Royal National Academy of Medicine); Vallejo-Nájera Award (Illustrious Official College of Physicians of Madrid); Special Award (American Psychosomatic Society); Outstanding Graduate; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC); Full Member (Academician) of the American Academy of Psycho-Analysis and the Spanish Medical-Surgical Academy; Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Canary Islands and the Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Humanities of Lanzarote.