1. Dr. GEMMA CAUPENA
PSYCHIATRIST (SENIOR ) IN BARCELONA
MASTER'S DEGREE IN GEROPSYCHIATRY from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
(UAB)
MASTER S DEGREE IN SEXOLOGY AND PARTNERS TEREPHY
EXPERIENCE IN DUAL DIAGNOSIS
Attending PSYCHIATRIST following Residency training, Member No. 34161 of the College of
Physicians
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
Name: Gemma Caupena Sarabia
Date of birth: December 24, 1973
Mobile telephone: + 34 620 21 41 53
Address: Avenida Lesseps, 36 b, 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallés (Barcelona), Spain
E-mail: caupena@yahoo.com
Skype: gemma.caupena.sarabia
Current positions: Psychiatrist at the CSMA Hospital Parc Taulí in Sabadell (Barcelona)
Psychiatrist at the Centro Médico Corominas in Sant Cugat (Barcelona)

2. EDUCATION
Baccalaureate and University Preparatory School: Instituto Arnau Cadell, Sant Cugat del Vallés
(Barcelona) (1991)
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) (1998)
Psychiatry Residency at the Clínica Mental Santa Coloma (1999-2003)
PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY
First year (June 99-00)
Rotation at the Acute Care Unit. Clínica Mental Torribera, Santa Coloma de Gramenet
(Barcelona)
Rotation at the Neurology Department. Hospìtal Germans Tries i Pujol (Can Ruti), Badalona
(Barcelona)
Rotation at the Department of Internal Medicine. Hospital Germans Tries I Pujol (Can Ruti),
Badalona (Barcelona)
Rotation at the Sub-Acute Care Unit. Clínica Mental Torribera, Santa Coloma de Gramenet
(Barcelona)
Second year (June 00-01)
Rotation at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit: acute care unit, psychiatric liaison,
outpatient treatment, eating disorders. Hospital Materno-Infantil Sant Joan de Déu, Esplugues de
Llobregat (Barcelona)
Addiction psychiatry rotation: Experience in group therapy, relapse prevention, family
therapy, methadone programs, follow-up of outpatients and at the inpatient detoxification
unit, medication-assisted management of addiction patients. Hospital de Sant Pau,
Barcelona.
Rotation at the CSMA Martí i Julià, Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona)

4. Third year (June 01-02)
Rotation at the CSMA Martí i Julià, Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona)
Rotation at the Geriatric Psychiatry and Dementia Unit. Clínica Mental Torribera, Santa Coloma
de Gramenet (Barcelona)
Fourth year (June 02-03)
Rotation at the Acute Care Unit. Clínica Mental Torribera, Santa Coloma de Gramenet
(Barcelona)
Rotation at the Psychiatric Liaison Service. Hospital Espíritu Santo, Santa Coloma de Gramenet
(Barcelona)
Elective rotation in Dual Diagnosis at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Department of Psychiatry and associated medical centers. Comprehensive treatment
programs for Dual Diagnosis. Day hospital program, hospitalization and outpatient follow-
up of patients with a dual diagnosis for Vietnam-era veterans at the Veterans
Administration Hospital (Dr. Thad Eckman) and Dual Diagnosis Outpatient Program at
Pacific Clinics (Dr. Alex Kopelowicz and Dr. Roberto Zárate)
Experience as attending psychiatrist
Dual Diagnosis Unit at the Hospital Benito Menni, Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona).
Experience in clinical management, medication-assisted treatment, group therapy, family
therapy, psychoeducation and rehabilitation for dual diagnosis patients (June 03-January
06)
CSMA Granollers. Community psychiatry. Outpatient management of adult patients, coordination
with local primary healthcare services, on-call shifts at the Hospital de Granollers (February 06-
June 06)
CSMA Parc Taulí, Sabadell. Outpatient management of adult patients, coordination with local
primary healthcare services, on-call shifts (September 06-June 13), which is where I am currently
working.

5. Continuing education
PhD Program at the UAB. Clinical Psychopathology and Psychiatry (Dr. Costa Molinari) (99-01)
Courses in psychopharmacology, psychiatric emergencies, brief psychotherapy, group therapy,
forensic psychiatry, family psychiatry and personality disorders (taught in seminar form during
Residency)
Master's Degree in geropsychiatry from the UAB
Family counseling for Dual Diagnosis (UCLA)
Substance abuse management module for patients with schizophrenia (UCLA)
Clinical experience
Psychiatry call, management of patients requiring acute hospital admission, follow-up of
outpatients, drug addiction and dual diagnosis, group therapy for drug addiction,
psychoeducation for patients with dual diagnosis, rehabilitation
Experience in the private practice of psychiatry:
Follow-up of elderly outpatients at Mútua Mutuam, Barcelona (June 2001-2003)
Medical evaluation of sick leaves at Mutua Egara, Barcelona (December 2003-2004)
Private practice at Centro Médico Corominas, Sant Cugat (Barcelona) (2012-2013)
Private practice at Centro de Psicología Ménsula, Manresa (Barcelona) (2012)
Private practice at Centro Brugués, Cerdanyola (Barcelona) (2013)
Research experience
Collaboration on research studies during residency and as attending psychiatrist:
Occurrence of tardive dyskinesia in patients with schizophrenia
Predictors of suicidal behavior
Relationship between environmental factors and relapse of mental illness
A study of the efficacy of risperidone depot in the prevention of relapse
A study of the efficacy of aripiprazole in the treatment of negative symptoms and

6. hyperprolactinemia
A study evaluating the results of mentalization-based group therapy for women with borderline
personality disorder
Etc.
Presentations
Posters
A case of induced Diogenes syndrome and schizophrenia. New variants of folie à deux. Spanish
National Congress of Psychiatry, Zaragoza, 2001
A descriptive analysis of the psychopathology leading to admission of schizophrenia patients to
the acute care unit. Spanish National Congress of Psychiatry, Zaragoza, 2001
Effect of ECT in a case of ASD. Spanish National Congress of Psychiatry, Zaragoza, 2001
The influence of environmental factors and psychiatric relapse. Spanish National Congress of
Psychiatry, Barcelona, 2002
Group therapy for BPD. XIII Spanish National Congress of Psychiatry, 2009
BPD. Analysis of 139 cases seen at CSMA Hospital Parc Taulí, 2009
Psychopathological and neurocognitive improvement in an elderly schizophrenic patient.
International Psychogeriatric Association Meeting, Santiago de Compostela, 2010
Incest and borderline personality disorder. 3rd Catalan Congress on Women's Mental Health,
Barcelona, 2012
Clinical and sociodemographic variables of elderly alcohol abusers, XIV National Congress on
Dual Diagnosis, Madrid 2012
Etc.
Publications
The eternal solution. Casos clínicos de residentes en psiquiatría nº 5 (2003)
Clinical Briefs. Psychotic depression induced by substance withdrawal. Psiquiatría
Biológica (2003)
Chapter on Dual Diagnosis. Recomendaciones terapéuticas en los trastornos mentales
RTM III (2005) and RTM IV (2012)

7. Clinical Briefs. ADHD comorbidity in dual diagnosis. Psiquiatría Biológica (2009)
Clinical Briefs. Dual diagnosis and comorbid BPD. Psiquiatría Biológica (2008)
Clinical Briefs. Organic psychosis in mixed cognitive impairment in the elderly: a case
report. Psicogeriatria, vol 5, nº 1, March 2015, 99-43
Oral communications
Clinical case presentation of a patient with dual diagnosis: PTSD, anorexia and
alcoholism. Clinical sessions at Socidrogalcohol Meeting (2005)
Case study of Forbes Nash and schizophrenia. Seminars on classic cases. Hospital Parc Taulí
(2008)
Clinical case report: Organic psychosis in the elderly. Master's Degree in Geropsychiatry, 2012,
Barcelona
Roundtable: Mental health care in the public system. Castellar City Council (2009)
Three radio interviews for Colectivo Burbuja on the topics of: 1) crisis and depression, 2)
schizophrenia, and 3) eating disorders (can be found on the internet)
Talks on SMI for relatives and patients at the Suport Castellar club (May 2014)
Attendance at Courses, Conferences and Meetings:
Organizer of and speaker at the "First International Congress on Dual Pathology" (April
2006), Dual Diagnosis Unit at the Hospital Benito Menni, Sant Boi de Llobregat
(Barcelona), 2006. Introduction and presentation for the first time in Spain of the
substance abuse management module for patients with schizophrenia (SAMM, Liberman
et al.)
APA Annual Meeting, Toronto 2006
APA Annual Meeting, San Diego 2007
APA Annual Meeting, New York 2014
European Congress of Psychiatry, Vienna 2013
Third Seminar on Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Hospital Torribera, Barcelona 2007
World Congress of Psychiatry, Prague 2008

8. EACCME - 1st Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, Venice 2008
8th International Review of Bipolar Disorders, Copenhagen 2008
XVI Psychogeriatric Update Seminars, Barcelona 2011
Course on psychopharmacology for children and adolescents, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu,
Barcelona, 2012
Dementia 2012, London 2012
XVII Psychogeriatric Update Seminars, Barcelona 2012
Addiction Medicine Meeting, Barcelona, June 2011
V Mental Health Research Seminars, CSMA Hospital Parc Taulí, 2010
XIII Spanish National Conference of Psychiatry, Madrid 2009
Management of critical situations in geriatric psychiatry, Barcelona 2011
APA Annual Meeting, 2010
17th European Congress of Psychiatry, 2009
XII Spanish National Conference of Psychiatry, Valencia 2008
First meeting on Comprehensive Treatment of SMI, Sabadell 2008
Dual Diagnosis Workshop. El Puerto de Santa María, 2004
World Congress on Women's Mental Health, Madrid 2011
Course on Comprehensive Treatment of BPD organized by the Hospital Sant Pau, Sabadell 2007
Course on Child Psychopharmacology, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, 2012
XIV Symposium on bipolar disorder, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona 2013
Etc.
Master Degrees:
Master's Degree in Geropsychiatry from the UAB; under Dr. Manel Sánchez. Hospital San
Rafael, Barcelona 2010-12.
Plans to pursue a Master's Degree in Forensic Psychology in 2016 at the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid

9. Languages:
Spanish, Catalan, English, Italian
Dr. G. Caupena
March 19, 2015
Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)

10. Languages:
Spanish, Catalan, English, Italian
Dr. G. Caupena
March 19, 2015
Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)