Jose Gabriel Franco Vasquez

Jose Gabriel Franco Vasquez, Ph.D., serves as a Research Professor and Research Group Coordinator of the Liaison Psychiatry Research Group at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana's School of Medicine. With an extensive research portfolio spanning over two decades, he has published 91 scientific productions, demonstrating consistent scholarly activity from 2001 through 2025. His h-index of 17 reflects significant scholarly impact in his field.

Dr. Franco Vasquez's research interests focus primarily on delirium diagnosis and assessment, particularly in geriatric populations and intensive care settings. His work extends to rating scales, cluster analysis in psychology, intensive care unit psychiatry, nursing home care, comorbidity patterns, and antipsychotic applications in neuroscience. His fingerprint analysis shows strong concentration in delirium neuroscience (100%), rating scale psychology (50%), and cluster analysis psychology (20%), indicating his specialized expertise in these areas.

His publication trends reveal increasing scholarly output, with 15 publications in 2019, 9 in 2020, 12 in 2021, 7 in 2022, 8 in 2023, and 5 in 2024, plus 2 projected for 2025. Recent work emphasizes validation studies of diagnostic tools, particularly for delirium in dementia patients and intensive care units, along with research on working memory training post-stroke and practical applications of assessment batteries for geriatric medical inpatients.

Scientific Awards:

• Reconocimiento sobresaliente del proyecto 'características epidemiológicas, clínicas y deficiencias físicas y psicológicas transitorias o permanentes en niños, niñas y adolescentes con antecedentes de maltrato infantil en la Clínica Universitaria Bolivariana entre enero 1 de 2011 a diciembre 31 de 2016' (October 6, 2017)

Dr. Franco Vasquez has been actively involved in multiple research projects as both principal investigator and advisor. He served as principal investigator for the Delirium Diagnostic Tool-Provisional project (2017-2018) and as advisor for several significant studies including psychiatric diagnoses in high-risk obstetric patients (2019-2021), childhood abuse research (2017-2018), and electroconvulsive therapy studies (2017-2018). His work contributes to multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those related to health and well-being.

As coordinator of the Liaison Psychiatry Research Group, he oversees collaborative research efforts that bridge psychiatry with other medical specialties, focusing on practical applications of psychiatric knowledge in general medical settings. His research demonstrates strong international collaboration, with publications appearing in journals such as European Journal of Psychiatry, Medicine (United States), Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, and Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.