Dr. Laia Miquel de Montagut

Laia Miquel, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist in the Addiction unit at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. She is working in the drug abuse field in clinical and research (IDIBAPS). Her principal experience is in the diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders (chemsex, alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, alcohol...) and psychiatric comorbidity among substance users. She developed two programs in the clinic for the treatment of psychological traumatic experiences in substance use disorder patients and a program for the treatment of people engaged in chemsex practices that have developed a substance use disorder. She has experience in Motivational interviewing (MI) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

As a researcher, she has participated as principal investigator (PI20/0506, RICORS) and has collaborated in international (Inter-GLAM, SCALA-Project, d-Healtylife, APC-study, etc) and national projects (RTA-RETICS, EFAR project, UPE, etc) studying alcohol and cannabis use disorders. Recently, she is studying several treatments to improve substance use disorder prognosis as EMDR, t-DCS and Transcraneal magnetic stimulation (TMS).

She is the former president of the Catalan Delegation of Socidrogalcohol and a member of the Working Group on Research in Women and Mental Health (GTRDSM) of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry.