Sabel Gabaldón Fraile

Psychiatrist

Coordinator of the Gender Identity Unit at SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital

Expert in

Child psychiatry and liaison psychiatry. Bioethics and gender variability and non-normative gender behaviours. Grief

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Languages

Spanish and Catalan

I work as a child and youth psychiatrist and I have a Master’s degree in Bioethics. I coordinate the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital Care Ethics Committee (CEA) and I am Deputy Chair of the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu in Sant Boi de Llobregat CEA. I am also a member of the Sant Joan de Déu Foundation Research Ethics Committee (CEI). I collaborate and teach at the Borja Institute of Bioethics.

Training

European Master’s degree in Bioethics Ramón Llull University, Barcelona, 2014.
Specialist in Psychiatry.
Bachelor of Medicine, University of Valencia, 1978.

Scientific activity

“Medicalised transsexuality: an ethical view”. Bioethics and debate, 2016
Member of the Aporía Research Group on Philosophy and Mental Health. Lecturer in the Department of Contemporary Philosophy of the University of Barcelona.
Research grant in bioethics from Victor Grífols Foundation on transsexuality in children and adolescents, 2017.

Teaching

Teacher at the Borja Institute of Bioethics. Ramón Llull University, 2005.
Lecturer on the Master’s Degree in Child Life Nursing at the Nursing School of the Sant Joan de Déu Teaching Campus, 2016.

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