Av. Paseo Tijuana # 406-102, Rio Tijuana Urban Zone Baja California 22010 Mexico
Email: info@doctordorantes.com
Professional Journey
Dr. Dorantes knew from an early age that he was interested in medicine and the study of the human mind. His love for science and his passion for helping people fueled his devotion to the study of the mind, and later his work in the field of mental health.
Consequently, a career in medicine and a specialty in psychiatry was the natural choice. Read more about the doctor's academic and professional background below.
Employment History
Practice of General Psychiatry at the Psychiatric Hospital "Fray Bernardino Álvarez"
Mexico DF
Psychiatrist at the Tijuana Municipal Psychiatric Hospital
1996-1997
1997-1998
1998-2000
Child Psychiatry Clinical Practice
at the Children's Hospital "Federico Gómez"
Mexico DF
1995-1996
General Psychiatry Practice at the
National Institute of Psychiatry
(formerly Mexican Institute of Psychiatry)
Mexico DF
November 1998
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April 1999
Psychiatrist
November, 1998 - February 2000
CE.RE.SO La Mesa in Tijuana
1999-2000
AUGUST 2000
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FEBRUARY 2002
President of the Imperial Valley-Mexicali Binational Mental Health Committee
2002-2015
expert assessor in psychiatry
Tijuana Jurisdiction Mental Health Program Coordinator
2000-2002
Head of Department
Regulation of Health Services of the Tijuana Jurisdiction
(Sanitary Regulation)
2005-2007
Technical Secretary in the Interdisciplinary Commission of Rehabilitation Centers
CEO at the
Institute of Psychiatry of the State of Baja California
(IPEBC), Mexicali, BC
Re-certified by the Mexican Council of Psychiatry
Technical Secretary at the State Council against Addictions
2002-2015
2005-2015
Private consultation
1998 - Present
2022
Doctor Dorantes has worked mainly in Baja California, in the cities of Mexicali, Tijuana and Rosarito. However, his work and studies have taken him abroad: to the Dominican Republic, Spain (Segovia, Barcelona, Lugo), Portugal, Sweden, Uruguay, Argentina, Guatemala, and the United States.
He has participated in international forums and as a speaker at national and international conferences.
Guía de Reconstrucción Personal
Manual that details the medical and psychological bases that govern the program of the same name. It also provides general guidelines for the application of each of the phases of the intervention as it relates to the psychological and medical bases. It provides a guide for psychology personnel and their coordinators.
Research Publications
Manual del Programa ''Forma''
It provides the theoretical basis for the detection of risk factors, as well as intervention techniques for the follow-up of patients detected with some type of vulnerability to addictions.
Thesis ''Potenciales Evocados. de Mediana Latencia y Alucinaciones en Pacientes Psicóticos"
In this research work the doctor sought to find if there is a relationship between auditory hallucinations of patients with schizophrenia and brain alterations that can be recorded by measuring auditory evoked potentials.
Observatorio Estatal de las Adicciones
It contains information on the epidemiological behavior of the State of Baja California regarding addictions in the last 3 years. This document includes data describing the behavior of the general population generated by the collection and subsequent analysis of nearly 24,000 surveys. It also makes a descriptive approach of the treatment units distributed by the State and the addict population confined in the CE.RE.SOs. Finally, it contains the results obtained after the evaluation of nearly 300,000 primary and secondary school students as well as the measurement of the vulnerable points of 2,061 schools (which constitutes the totality of students from 4th grade of primary to 3rd grade of secondary school and 100% of public and private schools in the State). The data is also shown with a geo-referencing system for the 5 municipalities.