Benedicto Crespo-Facorro

Life

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

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, US; and Honoris Causa Professor at the Universidad Favaloro Argentina.

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).