Dr. Mario Alvarez-Jimenez...

• Senior Research Fellow
• Orygen Youth Health Research Centre
• Dr Mario Alvarez-Jimenez completed his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla (Spain) in 2004; this was followed by a Masters in Research Methodology, Design and Statistics at the University Autonomous of Barcelona, and a PhD in Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Cantabria in 2009 (Spain).
  
  In 2010 Dr Alvarez-Jimenez took up a Senior Research Fellow position at Orygen Youth Health Research Centre and the Centre for Youth Mental Health at The University of Melbourne. His current research focuses on relapse prevention and psychosocial recovery in early psychosis through innovative technologies, interdisciplinary interventions and new models of psychotherapy. He has pioneered the use of online interventions to promote long-term recovery in early psychosis. At present he is the leading investigator of the HORYZONS study, a multidisciplinary research project which aims to develop and evaluate novel online interventions to foster recovery in first episode psychosis and a project focused on developing and testing newmodels of positive psychotherapy in psychosis (The PEPP study).
  
  His work includes 42 articles published in internationally leading journals, 3 book chapters and 1 book. He has obtained 6 competitive grants as lead investigator since 2010. Dr Alvarez-Jimenez has been awarded the 2012 International Early Psychosis Association Young Investigator Award.

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