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Marta Quesada Franco

I am a psychiatrist with extensive experience with complex psychiatric disorders' patients in the field of hospitalization and with patients making high-lethal suicide attempts. I work in the psychiatric hospitalization unit. My main research is about high-lethal suicide attempters.

Institutions of which they are part

Senior researcher
Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addictions
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Doctor
Psychiatrics
General Hospital

Marta Quesada Franco

Institutions of which they are part

Senior researcher
Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addictions
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Doctor
Psychiatrics
General Hospital

I am a psychiatrist with extensive experience with complex psychiatric disorders' patients in the field of hospitalization and with patients making high-lethal suicide attempts. I work in the psychiatric hospitalization unit. My main research is about high-lethal suicide attempters.

I am a psychiatrist with extensive experience with complex psychiatric disorders' patients in the field of hospitalisation and with patients making high-lethal suicide attempts. I have been working as a specialist since 2006, mainly in the field of hospitalisation. Doctorate in Psychiatry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2015. Title of the doctoral thesis: “Study on serious suicide attempts in a general hospital: socio-demographic and clinical aspects”. Associate professor in the Psychiatry Department of the Faculty of Medicine at Barcelona Autonomous University. My areas of interest are suicide, the psychiatric inpatient and addictions.

Projects

Attempted Suicide intervention treatment and prevention : a randomised controlled trial

IP: Mª Dolores Braquehais Conesa
Collaborators: Marta Quesada Franco, Gemma Parramon Puig, Anna Beneria González, Gara Arteaga Henriquez
Funding agency: Fundació La Marató de TV3
Funding: 128400
Reference: 202208-30-31
Duration: 20/04/2023 - 20/04/2026

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