Celso Arango


Celso Arango is a Spanish psychiatrist who has worked extensively 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. As a result of this work, Dr. Arango has received national and international recognition with the most prestigious awards and distinctions in the field of psychiatry.

Biography

Dr. Arango is currently Head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service, which includes the Psychiatry Department’s Adolescent Psychiatry Unit 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. 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 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 with the .
Dr. Arango has been past President of The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and lately September, he was appointed as President of the .
Dr. Arango has written numerous articles that have been published in journals such as Nature, British Journal of Psychiatry, Archives of General Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, World Psychiatry, and American Journal of Psychiatry.

Selected publications

Dr. Arango has written more than 450 peer-reviewed articles, including: