Juan David Palacio is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist trained at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, King´s College. He is currently leading the Fellow program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Universidad de Antioquia, in Medellin – Colombia.
For the past twenty years, he has been working in the Group of Research on Psychiatry (GIPSI) at the University of Antioquia, mainly with the bipolar offspring. He recently started research about the clinical characteristics, genetic markers, and psychosocial adversity factors that predict the onset of Severe Mental Illness in high-risk offspring from the “Paisa” genetic isolate.
