Renato D. Alarcón is an

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at the

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and works at

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. He was born in Arequipa,

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and would go on to graduate from Cayetano Heredia University as a surgeon in 1966. Renato did Psychiatric postgraduate training at

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in 1970, where we received his

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. Today, he is a

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at the

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. Alarcón serves as the

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of the Department of Psychiatry at

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. He was also the director of the Mood Disorders Unit at the Mayo Psychiatry and Psychology Treatment Center. The

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named him Distinguished Life Fellow. The

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named him Fellow of the American College of Psychiatry. He primarily studies cultural psychiatry,

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, and

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