Department: MEDICINE

Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Odontology

Area: Psychiatry

Research group: Ideaspsychiatry Excellence Research Group

Research group: Valencia mental health and stigma

Email: vicente.balanza@uv.es

Doctor by the Universitat de València with the thesis Estudio longitudinal de la función neurocognitiva en pacientes bipolares tipo-i y esquizofrénicos 2005. Supervised by Dr. Rafael Tabarés Seisdedos, Dr. José Salazar Fraile.

Born in Meliana, L'Horta, in 1970. Professor, specialist in psychiatry and master's degree in individual psychotherapy from the UV. Post-doc in molecular psychiatry at the H. Clínicas de Porto Alegre (Brazil). Member of three working groups (Task Force) of the International Society for Bipolar Disoders (ISBD): Staging; Targeting Cognition; Nutrition and Exercise. Founding member of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry (INSPR) and member of its executive committee (2014-2023). More than 150 publications in indexed journals (h-index=41). Senior researcher at INCLIVA and CIBERSAM. Coordinator of the CIBERSAM Bipolar Disorder Research Program (2022-2025). Coordinator of the subject "Medical Psychology", degree in medicine. Member of the Medical Education Unit, of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Coordinator at the UV of the UNILIFE-M international cohort study on the mental health and lifestyles of university students. Research lines: see key words.