João Tavares

Special fields: Psychiatry

Age groups: Adults

Consultations in Portuguese, French, English

João Tavares is a psychiatrist and currently works at the Alcoholics Unit in Lisbon. The restlessness, which his taste for adventure provides, has led him to practice in places as diverse as Luxembourg and Martinique. He has a PhD in Contemporary History (2023) from FCSH-Nova and in recent years he has been interested mainly in the challenges that social sciences face in the field of Psychiatry. He has published works in this area, such as: Tavares, João "Haloperidol’s introduction in the United States: A tale of a failed trial and its consequences", Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (2023), DOI: 10.1080/0964704X. 2023.2283463

Academic Training and professional experience

Graduated in medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon in 2004, he completed his additional internship in Psychiatry at Hospital Julio de Matos in 2011.

In 2012 he worked as a psychiatrist at the Hôpital de Colson, Martinique, France

From 2013 to 2016 he worked as a psychiatrist, and held the role of medical officer on duty (Responsable Medical de l'Unité Bu5), at the center Hospitalier Neuropsiquiatrique, Ettelbruck, Luxembourg

Returning to Portugal in 2017, he worked in the Alcoholology unit. In 2018, after a brief stay at Hospital de Santarem, he joined the Psychiatry Service at Hospital de Vila Franca de Xira, and in 2022 returned to the alcoholology unit, where he still works today.