# Julio Moizeszowicz

Julio Moizeszowicz is an Argentine psychiatrist. He was born (1943-05-25)May 25, 1943 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the son of Polish immigrants who moved to Argentina before World War II.
Moizeszowicz's research aims to treat mental disorders such as psychosis, neurosis and depression by rebalancing the relationship between the body and mind through psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and treatment with psychoactive drugs. He uses drugs to address imbalances of neurotransmitters in the brain, preventing the formation or reinforcement of traumatic memories via neuronal plasticity after psychological trauma.

## Career

Moizeszowicz was a Resident Physician at the University of Buenos Aires Medical Clinic Research Institute from 1965 to 1968. He worked with the team that performed the first kidney transplants. He was also involved in the first Balint Society group for psychotherapists in Argentina.
In 1968, after completing his residency, he went to Germany to work on clinical drug development. He contributed to Phase I/II studies of a variety of drugs (such as the psychotropic agents nomifensine, etifoxine, clobazam and loprazolam, and the biologic drugs streptokinase and haemaccel) at the Pharmacologic and Medical Department of Hoechst AG, Behringwerke in Germany.
In 1973, he joined the National Neuropsychiatric Hospital José Tiburcio Borda in Buenos Aires. He obtained a specialty degree and certification as a psychiatrist. His thesis was entitled "Current status of the clinical evaluation of psychotropic drugs".
In 1983, as the result of an open scientific competition, he was appointed as an associate professor in the Mental Health Department at Buenos Aires Medical School. The jury included Horacio Etchegoyen, Mauricio Goldenberg and Dionisio Duarte. He held this position until 1994, teaching the application of evidence-based medicine to the neuro-psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments of patients in the general hospital. From 1983 to 1989, he ran the seminars in psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Association of Buenos Aires (ApdeBA, affiliated with the International Psychoanalytic Association).
Other significant positions include professor of psychopathology at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association; professor of psychopharmacology at the Argentine Psychiatrist Association; and supervisor at the Psychopharmacology Section of the Psychology Department in the Israeli Hospital, Buenos Aires (1977–1989).

### Visiting positions

* 1985–1986: Professor at Salta Health Sciences School, National University of Salta
* 1997: Visiting Professor at the School of Medicine, National University of Córdoba
* 2001: Visiting Professor at the Galician School of Health Administration, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

### Society Memberships

* Argentine Medical Association
* Argentine Psychiatric Association
* Argentine College of Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience (board member)
* American Psychiatric Association (International member)
* New York Academy of Sciences (International member)

### Community service

He has served as President of the Psychopharmacology Section of the Argentine Psychiatrist Association (affiliated with the World Psychiatric Association, 1983–1993) and as a Member of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association (component society of the International Psychoanalytic Association). He was medical director at "The Aleph" Day Mental Health Clinic (1986–1995); President of the Foundation of Psychopharmacology Research; Editor of the "Revista Argentina de Psicofarmacología" (Argentine Psychopharmacology Journal, 1995–2000) and the "Revista FundoPsi, Evidencia en Psicofarmacología" (Argentine Journal of Evidence-based Psychopharmacology, 2000–2004).