JOAN BADIA i CARDÚS – President
Specialized in Clinical Psychology. A clinician dedicated full-time to public healthcare, primarily in the child and adolescent sector and mainly in the community setting (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centers and Day Hospitals). Manager and pioneer of projects contributed to the Network. Collaborations with the Universities of Barcelona (UB) and Girona. Various publications and presentations.
JUDITH MARTÍN I SALA – Secretary
Psychoanalyst. Degree in Clinical Psychology. Working in the child and adolescent mental health clinic of the public and community health network for over 25 years. Currently at the CSMIJ Joan Obiols of Badalona Serveis Assistencials. Experience as a teacher and supervisor of CRAES (DGAIA) teams for children and youth under state care. Various publications and presentations in the field of mental health.
SÍLVIA VENTURA i MAS
For twenty years, a judge in the Court of Incapacities in Barcelona. Professor for University Masters programs and professional training at ICAB Barcelona and the General Council of the Judiciary. Author of the book “The Mad in Catalonia 1850-2000” and numerous articles and presentations. Patron of the Mental Illness Foundation of Catalonia.
Jordi Marfà Vallverdú
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Worked in a psychiatric institution from 1980 to 1995. Coordinator of CSMA in Badalona from 1995 to 2021. Experience in individual, group, and Open Dialogue clinical work.
ASUN PIÉ BALAGUER
PhD in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona and degree in Social Education from the Ramon Llull University. She is a professor and researcher in the Arts and Humanities Department / Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She has 10 years of experience in direct care in the social and educational field and 15 years dedicated to research and teaching. Her field of research is feminist disability studies.
Maria Jesus Rufat
Psychologist specializing in clinical psychology, psychotherapist. Professor and supervisor in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (Personality Disorders Institute of New York). Coordinator of the Cross-Cutting Treatment Program linked to 5 care facilities in the Public Mental Health Network (CPB), for patients with BPD. Professor on the Postgraduate Program in BPD at UIC. Professor and supervisor of the Transference-Focused Therapy Course. Member of the TLP Barcelona Group.
ALICIA ROIG SALAS
Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist. Director of the CSMAS of Horta and Guinardó (Barcelona). Coordinator of the Commission on Legislation and Human Rights for 10 years 1980-90 of the AEN (Madrid). Member of CEDEP Europe: European Committee for Ethics, Law and Psychiatry since its foundation. Advisor to numerous Justice and Mental Health Commissions. President of the CEA of the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation until 2020 (currently a member).
ANGEL MARTINEZ-HERNAEZ
Professor and Director of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) at Rovira i Virgili University. He has been a visiting researcher and/or professor at various universities in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. In 2020, he was awarded the ICREA Acadèmia prize.
MERCEDES SERRANO MIGUEL
Doctor of Social Anthropology and Social Worker. Professor in the Degree of Social Work at the University of Barcelona and in the Postgraduate Program in Collective Mental Health at Rovira i Virgili University.
FERNANDO VIDAL
ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) Research Professor at the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. After a long career in the field of the history of the human sciences, he took a new direction, and currently coordinates a research project on the lived experience of illness. His latest book (with F. Ortega) is ’¿Somos nuestro cerebro? La construcción del sujeto cerebral“ (Alianza, 2021).
ESTHER FRANCISCO SALAS
Metgessa, Psychiatry Specialist. Member of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SCPiSM), associate of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents (SEPYPNA). More than a decade of professional practice in the public sector, mainly community-based and child/adolescent.
MARTA CONSUEGRA
PhD in Biomedicine with over 10 years of research experience. Researcher and lecturer in science and health communication at the University of Barcelona. Researcher and scriptwriter for the TVE La 2 science program “El cazador de cerebros” and a freelance science writer for various print and audiovisual media.
Montserrat Hierro Fernandez
Judge in different judicial districts of Barcelona and Terres de l’Ebre. Prosecutor in Terres de l’Ebre and Tarragona. The last 9 years in the Children's Section of the Tarragona Prosecutor's Office. Associate Professor at URV. Lecturer in Master's programs at the Tortosa Bar Association. Member of the Observatory of Children's and Adolescents' Rights of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Collaboration on the Protocol for action against Gender Violence. Presentations and outreach on legal topics, especially related to children and gender violence.
