Gaixotasun mentala, ezintasuna eta bizi-kalitatea

She holds a PhD in Law and is a lecturer in Civil Law at the UPV/EHU. Her main line of research is bioethics, a subject on which she has published several monographs and scientific and dissemination articles. She has participated in 4 European research projects of the VI and VII European Framework Programme, as well as in multiple research projects of the National Programme. She has been a visiting professor at the Hastings Center for Bioethics in New York, the Center for Bioethics at the University of Philadelphia and the University of Bordeaux. She was Secretary General of Eusko Ikaskuntza, and later of Jakiunde, Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Vice-rector of quality and teaching innovation at the UPV/EHU between 2008 and 2012, and responsible for the development of the educational model, as well as quality programmes, and training and evaluation of university teaching staff. Between 2013 and 2015, she was Deputy Minister of Universities and Research of the Basque Government.

Licenciado en medicina y cirugía (1978), especialista en psiquiatría (1982), Doctor en medicina (Parasuicidio en Guipúzcoa.1995). Profesor asociado de la UPV/EHU (asignatura de psiquiatría). Diplomado en Sanidad, Escuela Nacional de Sanidad (1981). Diplomado en Bioestadística (UAB, 1982-1983). Especialista Universitario en Psiquiatría Forense (UNED, 2007). Curso sobre “introducción y la enseñanza de la psiquiatría basada en la evidencia” (Oxford, 2001). Ha trabajado en las tres redes de salud mental de la comunidad autónoma. Jefe de Servicio en funciones del Servicio de Psiquiatría del Hospital Universitario Donostia (OSI Donostialdea). Colaborador con la Organización Mundial de la Salud (alcoholismo y lconducta suicida) y con la Comisión para las Comunidades Europeas en Bruselas (Concerted action on management of attempted suicide patients, by general hospitals facilities: a quantification of Medical and Psychological services, in selected European Centres (1989-1990)).