Research Interest: Depression, anxiety, mental adjustment to cancer, pharmacogenetic, stress, stressful life events, pharmacology, antidepressants, mindfulness, meditation.

Doctor in medicine and surgery and master's degree in Hebeatría, degrees obtained at the National University of Loja, (Loja-Ecudor) student of the Doctorate in Morphological Sciences at the University of La Frontera (Temuco-Chile).

 •           Professor at the National University of Loja in pre- and post-graduate studies, experience as Director of the Medicine degree. Professor at the Private Technical University of Loja in the career of medicine and the specialty of family and community medicine, I was Director of the Department of Health Sciences, currently a full professor of the medicine career.

Research Interest: Morphosciences, Mental health, Tenager

Research Interest: Perinatality, babies, parenthood, development of the child, medical assisted procreation, egg donation, child psychiatry.

Research Interest: Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum,numerous.

Research Interest: Alcohol Use Disorder, Affective Disorders in Gastrointestinal Diseases.

Research Interest: Brain stimulation and pharmacological interventions and biomarkers for treatment-resistant depressive episodes (as part of mood disorders) PTSD, resilience, and suicide prevention.

Research Interest:  Serotonergic Functioning in Depressed Stroke, Non Depressed Stroke, and in Healthy Elderly.

Research Interest: Bipolar Disorders, Mood Disorders, Biological Markers, Psychopharmacology, Neurocognition.

Research Interest: Neuroimmunology, Infectious disease of the Central Nervous System, Neuroscience.

Research Interest: The major objective of my research is to elucidate the molecular and cellular mechanisms associated with mood disorders, stress-related pathology, and suicidal behavior by integrating basic and clinical neuroscience to comprehensively examine the roles of neurotransmitter receptors, cytokines, neurotrophins, cellular signaling, and neural plasticity utilizing gene expression, RNA sequencing, microRNAs, and epigenetic approaches. The model systems that I have been using include human postmortem brain, peripheral blood cells, and animal models of behavioral depression and PTSD, and gene knockout mice.

Research Interest: Hepatobiliary Surgery, Pancreatic Surgery, Gastrointestinal Surgery.

Research Interest: Menopause, climacteric, Sleep, menopausal depression, pregnancy, hormone replacement therapy.