Corresponding Academician
Social Sciences: PhD in Medicine
Date of admission: November 3, 2022
Admission speech: “Psychiatry in the History of Culture”
Reply by: H.E. Dr. M. Àngels Calvo Torras, PhD in Veterinary Medicine and in Pharmacy
DR. LEOPOLDO ORTEGA-MONASTERIO Y GASTÓN
UNIVERSITY DEGREES
- Degree in Medicine from the University of Barcelona.
- Specialist in Psychiatry: training initiated at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and completed at the Hôpital Psychiatrique de Bellevue, Yverdon (Vaud, Switzerland).
- PhD in Medicine from the University of Lausanne, with the thesis Etude sur l’évolution de la catatonie périodique.
- Additional clinical training in the Department of Neurology at the University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton (Canada).
TEACHING ACTIVITY
- Professor at the universities of Barcelona, Salamanca, and currently at the International University of Catalonia.
- Member, by public examination, of the Corps of University Associate Professors.
- Honorary Director of the Official Master’s Degree in Legal, Forensic and Criminological Psychopathology at the International University of Catalonia.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Forensic Physician, admitted by public examination to the National Corps of Forensic Doctors.
- Clinical and expert practice in forensic psychiatry, with activity before courts of justice.
- Founding member and President of the Spanish Society of Forensic Psychiatry.
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of several specialised books on forensic psychiatry.
- Speaker at national and international conferences and congresses.
