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Marta Quesada Franco

I am a psychiatrist with extensive experience treating patients with complex psychiatric disorders with comorbidity, patients who make high-lethality suicide attempts and are referred from medical-surgical units once they are medically stabilized, and patients with Dual disorders. I work in the Adult Psychiatry Inpatient Unit. My main field of research is high-lethality suicide attempts and addictions

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 treating patients with complex psychiatric disorders with comorbidity, patients who make high-lethality suicide attempts and are referred from medical-surgical units once they are medically stabilized, and patients with Dual disorders. I work in the Adult Psychiatry Inpatient Unit. My main field of research is high-lethality suicide attempts and addictions

Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Completed the Psychiatry specialty at Hospital Santa Maria de Lleida. I have been practicing as a specialist since 2006, mainly in the inpatient setting. PhD in Psychiatry from the UAB in 2015. Title of the doctoral thesis: “Study on medically serious suicide attempts in a general hospital: sociodemographic and clinical aspects.” Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine at the UAB School of Medicine since 2024. My areas of interest are mainly suicide, hospitalized psychiatric patients, 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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