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Dr. Adrián Cano
Co-Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology.
Specialist in Psychiatry.
Primary focus on the diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD, and on the impact of mental illness on marital and family dynamics.
Professional career
Graduated and PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Navarra.
Specialist in Psychiatry at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family from the Institute for Family Sciences, University of Navarra.
Director of the Family Diagnosis and Therapy Unit (UDITEF), Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
Co-Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology since June 2023.
RESEARCH AREAS
- Primary research focus since 2000 on the relationship between mental illness and marital and/or family dynamics, with increasing interest over the past five years in the study of adult ADHD.
- Former Co-Director of Family Therapy Research Projects (PRINTEF) at the Institute for Family Sciences, University of Navarra.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Study and diagnosis of ADHD and eating disorders in adults.
- Relationship between various mental illnesses and marital and family dynamics.
Activity
In teaching
- Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, University of Navarra.
- Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, University of Navarra.
- Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Canon Law, University of Navarra.
- Instructor, Continuing Master’s Program in Matrimonial and Procedural Canon Law.
- Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Psychopedagogy, Universidad Panamericana (Guadalajara, Mexico).
- Research merit period (“sexenio”) recognized by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI), 2005–2017.
In research
- Has supervised six doctoral dissertations.
- Author of more than twenty articles in national and international journals, and over forty in the field of family health education. Additionally, author of six books and more than thirty book chapters. Has presented over one hundred contributions at national and international conferences.
- Has delivered more than three hundred lectures, courses, and workshops in Spain and abroad on Psychiatry and marital and family dynamics.
Awards and Recognitions
- First Prize, Clinical Case Competition for Residents, Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Spanish Society of Neuropsychiatry. “Dementia or Pseudodementia.” Moya, J., Cano Prous, A., Ortuño, F. Madrid, 2002.
Scientific Organizations
- Member of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health.
- Member of the Basque-Navarre Society of Psychiatry.
- Member of the European Society on Family Relations (ESFR).
Acknowledgements
- Spanish Association of Hematology and Hemotherapy (AEHH) since 1990.
- American Society of Hematology (ASH) since 1994.
- International Society of Experimental Hematology (ISEH) since 1995.
- Spanish Association of Cancer Research (ASEICA) since 2002.
- European Hematology Association (EHA) since 2009.
Scientific organizations
- Young Investigator Award. Blood Club. Central Society of Clinical Investigation. Chicago 1996.
- Award to the Best Project of Basic Applied or Clinical Research in Breast Cancer. Novartis: Effects of inhibition of tyrosine kinase activity of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family receptors on the regulation of breast cancer cell proliferation and apoptosis (2001).
- Rafael Hervada Award for Biomedical Research: Myocardial regeneration with autologous myoblasts: experimental and clinical study. Rafael Hervada Hospital. December 2005.
- Accesit to the Bayer-Schering-Pharma Award 2007 in Research on Lymphoproliferative Syndromes: Epigenetic regulation of Wnt-signaling pathway in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. XLIX AEHH National Meeting and XXIII SETH National Congress. Pamplona, October 2007.
- FEHH-ASTRA ZENECA Award 2007. Epigenetic regulation of human cancer/testis antigen gene, HAGE, in chronic myeloid leukemia. XLIX AEHH National Meeting and XXIII SETH National Congress. Pamplona, October 2007.
- BIAL Award 2009. The role of Epigenetics in the Prognosis and Pathogenesis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Lisbon. May 2009.