Manuel Isaías López, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Manuel Isaías López

Mexican psychiatrist

Date of Birth: 20-May-1941

Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico

Date of Death: 29-Nov-2017

Profession: psychiatrist, child psychiatrist

Nationality: Spain, Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Manuel Isaías López (May 20, 1941 - November 29, 2017) was a prominent child psychiatrist, trained in Philadelphia.
Many consider Manuel Isaías López to be the father of Mexican Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
In 1972, he founded the first Child and Adolescent Psychiatry subspecialty program in Mexico, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
He also founded and was the first president of AMPI (Mexican Child Psychiatry Association) in 1975.
He was the training director of the only Child and Adolescent Psychiatry training program in Mexico, at UNAM, from 1972 until 1998.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, Manuel Isaías López was considered the most influential psychiatrist in Mexico.
In the early eighties, he was simultaneously President of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association; Secretary General of the Mexican Board of Psychiatry; Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UNAM; and Main Consultant to the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF), a nationwide government funded system of child and family guidance centers.
His later contributions were in Bioethics, and he evolved into a researcher within this field and an International Psychoanalytic Association officer.