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Guest Lecture by Dr. Soledad Romero Cela
We are honored to host dr. Soledad Romero Cela, MD, an international psychiatry expert in the field of childhood trauma, as a guest speaker at PUMS. Dr. Romero Cela has been invited within the framework of the Academic Poznan - a long-running project by the Poznan City Hall.
The open lecture on "Complex trauma in serious mental illness: the forgotten perspective. Impact on emotional development and clinical prognosis" will be held on October 24, 2024 at 11am in room 1010 of PUMS Medical Biology Center at 8 Rokietnicka St.
Dr. Soledad Romero Cela is a psychiatrist and researcher in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Barcelona Clinical Hospital. Dr. Romero is the author of numerous scientific publications focusing on the topic of early childhood trauma and its impact on the development of mental illness and disorders.
Dr. Romero Cela received her medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of La Laguna in San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain. In June 2005, she completed her specialization in psychiatry at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona. She began her research career during an internship at the University of Pittsburgh in the US, studying the area of bipolar affective disorder (ChAD) in children and adolescents. At the time, Dr. Romero's research focused on the prevalence of affective disorder in children and the correlation of clinical manifestations of the disorder with childhood abuse experiences. Dr. Romero received her doctoral degree in 2014. Her dissertation, titled “Sexual and Physical Abuse and Negative Life Events in Children and Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder,” received an honorable mention from the Medical University of Barcelona.
Dr. Romero Cela continued her scientific work as a project leader involving studies on the clinical, neuroimaging and neurocognitive characteristics of adolescents with bipolar I or II affective disorder. In addition, she also remained involved in a long-term prospective study examining the offspring of parents, with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, for deviations in neuroimaging studies, psychopathology, cognitive processes and genetics.