Celso Arango
Celso Arango is a psychiatrist who has worked as a clinician, researcher, and educator in psychiatry and mental health, notably in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosis, and mental health promotion. Biography. Arango is currently Director of the Gregorio Marañón Psychiatric and Mental Health Institute and Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Professor of Psychiatry at Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland, a visiting professor of psychiatry at King's College London and Full Adjunt Professor of Psychiatry at University  of California, San Francisco. From 2008 to 2016, he was the Scientific Director of the Spanish Psychiatric Research Network (CIBERSAM). Also in 2008, the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services, and Equality awarded him its Medal of Honor, the “Cruz de la Orden Civil de Sanidad. Between 2012 and 2014, he was the Fundación Alicia Koplowitz Endowed Chair for Child Psychiatry at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and he has been a board member of the European Brain Council (the European Commission's advisory body) since 2013. In December 2014, he was appointed chairman of the National Commission for the  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Specialty by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. Recently he was awarded by the American College of Psychiatrists with the Dean Award. Arango is a past president of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He was appointed as president of the Spanish Psychiatry Society. He has written numerous articles that have been published in journals such as "Nature", "Nature Neuroscience", "Nature Medicine", "Nature Genetics", "JAMA Psychiatry", "Lancet Psychiatry", "World Psychiatry", and "American Journal of Psychiatry". Selected publications. Arango has written more than 650 peer-reviewed articles, including: