Sergio Armando Covarrubias-Castillo

Sergio A. Covarrubias-Castillo is a psychiatrist currently living and practicing in Guadalajara, Western

Mexico’s largest city, where he performed his studies in Psychiatry and a Master’s Degree in Gerontology, as well as other certifications in Healthy aging, Old age psychoanalytic clinic and World health challenges.

He is the Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Hospital Civil de Guadalajara “Fray Antonio Alcalde” (HCG-FAA), one of Mexico’s largest and oldest General Hospitals.

He currently teaches Psychiatry Clinic to medical students at University of Guadalajara’s University Center of Tlajomulco and at University Center of Health Sciences, where he is President of the Academy of Neurology and Psychiatry. He also teaches Psychopathology and Methodology to Psychiatry Residents at HCG-FAA. He is part of Cochrane’s Collaboration University of Guadalajara´s geographical group.

His research interests are related to general hospital psychiatry, medical students’ mental health, caregiver syndrome, evidence based mental health, psychosis / catatonia, and more recently he has been focusing in different strategies aiming to reduce mental-disorders’ stigma among health practitioners, developing social media campaigns, performing yet-to be published researches to identify both internalized stigma among medical students, as well as stigmatizing attitudes towards people living with mental disorders. Some of this research has granted him the Mexican National Researchers System (SNII) recognition certificate.