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María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza (born October 3, 1951) is a Mexican researcher and psychologist. Maria was inducted into the Prestigious “El Colegio Nacional” of Mexico on March 6, 2006, which can only have up to 40 members at any given time (36 right now, 108 since founding in 1943).

Early life and education
Maria Icaza was born on October 3, 1951, in Mexico City, Mexico. She obtained her primary education at the Colegio Francés del Pedregal (French College of Pedregal) from 1955 -1961. She would then go on to attend Palos Verdes & Margate School for junior high school from 1962-1963. She would then return to the French College of Pedregal for high school (1964-1970). Following high school, she would go on to obtain licensure to practice social and clinical psychology (1970-1974). Once licensed, Maria would proceed to obtain her Bachelor of Psychology at the Ibero-American University (1976), her Masters in Psychology at the Ibero-American University (1979), her Ph.D. in social psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1993), and would later receive an honorary Ph.D. from The Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (2009).

Career
Maria graduated from the Ibero-American University, where she would go on to obtain her master’s and eventually her doctorate at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in social psychology. Maria is an expert in mental health, addiction, and is a faculty member of UNAM’s medical and psychology departments. Furthermore, she has been working with the Mexican government since 2003. She was the director of the ‘’National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz’’ and worked with the Secretary of Health from 2008-2018. The day after stepping down from the director position at the National Institute of Psychiatry, she was promoted to the coordinator position. In addition, as of 2019, she is the director of the mental health and psychiatric department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; UNAM).

Maria works as a level three researcher with the National System of Researchers (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores) and is a member of El Colegio Nacional (National College of Mexico), the Mexican Academy of Sciences (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias), the Academia Nacional de Medicina (National Academy of Medicine), and the National College of Psychologists (Colegio Nacional de Psicólogos). Maria also serves in the editorial committee for the following magazines: Mental Health (Salud Mental), the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Mexican Magazine of Psychology and Public Health, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Addiction (UK), and Psychiatry (Spain).

Selected works

 * Borges, G., Benjet , C., Orozco , R., & Medina-Mora, M. E. (2018, October). A longitudinal study of reciprocal risk between mental and substance use disorders among Mexican youth. Journal of psychiatric research. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30149219/.
 * Goodman-Meza, D., Medina-Mora, M. E., Magis-Rodríguez, C., Landovitz, R. J., Shoptaw, S., & Werb, D. (2019). Where Is the Opioid Use Epidemic in Mexico? A Cautionary Tale for Policymakers South of the US-Mexico Border. American journal of public health, 109(1), 73–82. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304767
 * Marsiglia, F. F., Medina-Mora, M. E., Gonzalvez, A., Alderson, G., Harthun, M., Ayers, S., Gutiérrez, B. N., Corona, M. D., Melendez, M., & Kulis, S. (2019). Binational Cultural Adaptation of the keepin' it REAL Substance Use Prevention Program for Adolescents in Mexico. Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 20(7), 1125–1135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-019-01034-0
 * Patel, V., Chisholm, D., Parikh, R., Charlson, F. J., Degenhardt, L., Dua, T., Ferrari, A. J., Hyma, S., Whiteford, H., Thornicroft, G., Vijayakumar, L., Shidhaye, R., Scott, J., Petersen, I., Mora, M. E. M., Lund, C., Levin, C., & Laxminarayan, R. (2015, October 7). Addressing the burden of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition. The Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)00390-6/fulltext.
 * Patel, V., Saxena, S., Lund, C., Thornicroft, G., Baingana, F., Bolton, P., Chisholm, D., Collins, P. Y., Cooper, J. L., Eaton, J., Herrman, H., Herzallah, M. M., Huang, Y., Jordans, M. J. D., Kleinman, A., Mora, M. E. M., Morgan, E., Niaz, U., Omigbodun, O., … UnÜtzer, J. Ü. (2018, November 2). The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development. The Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31612-X/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlgmh18&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social.
 * Torralba, J., Mendoza, M. P., Grynberg, B., Zarco, V., & Medina-Mora, M. (2018, June). (PDF) PROGRAMA DE ORIENTACIÓN Y ATENCIÓN PSICOLÓGICA PARA ... Research Gate. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325975960_PROGRAMA_DE_ORIENTACION_Y_ATENCION_PSICOLOGICA_PARA_JOVENES_UNIVERSITARIOS_DE_LA_UNAM_CARACTERISTICAS_DE_LA_POBLACION_QUE_SOLICITA_SUS_SERVICIOS.
 * Volkow, N. D., Icaza, M., Poznyak, V., Saxena, S., Gerra, G., & UNODC-WHO Informal Scientific Network (2019). Addressing the opioid crisis globally. World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 18(2), 231–232. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20633