Dra. Laura Saavedra Ramírez

Sobre mí

Role in the Hospital Serena del Mar: 

• Leader of the Mental Health service and president of the Clinical Ethics Committee, Psychiatrist, specialist in Liaison Psychiatry.
• Participant in the committees on spirituality, good treatment, attention to victims of sexual violence, education.
• Leader of the end-of-life care program.
• Manager of the perinatal bereavement care program.
• Facilitator of processes related to humanization in intensive care both in adults and in the pediatric population, the prevention of delirium (Delirium Aware Hospital and Sleep friendly hospital) and the integration of palliative care in the intensive care unit

Areas of interest within his specialty and clinical conditions:

• Pain psychiatry: complex painful pathologies in cancer and non-cancer patients, prevention and management of opioid use disorders.
• Palliative psychiatry: Care and support in patients with limiting and/or life-threatening conditions.
• Perinatal psychiatry: specialized care for the pregnant person and their family, from the preconception evaluation in cases of sterility, infertility and assisted fertilization, as well as during pregnancy and postpartum.
• Care of children, adolescents and adult patients and their families with complex pathologies that require surgical medical management.
• Psychiatry of the elderly: care of elderly patients who require evaluation and management by psychiatry as part of the study and management of cognitive deficits, dementia and other conditions that impact their quality of life and well-being, with emphasis on safe and evidence-based pharmacological practices. the evidence.
• Care with a gender perspective and inclusive.
• Emotional and/or mental complications of medical-surgical diseases, neuropsychiatric manifestations of medical diseases. surgical and medical complications of mental illnesses and psychiatric treatments and/or psychotropic drugs.
• Grief, acute and chronic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, psychotic and eating disorders, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorders, specific phobias, and substance use disorders.

Merits obtained:

Order of Academic Merit of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2019.

Care and non-care experience to highlight:

• I worked as coordinator of the acute care unit at the clínica Montserrat - ICSN where I also worked as a teacher.
• I worked as a leader of the mental health and psychiatry service of the Hospital Universitario de la Samaritana, with teaching, care and administrative functions.
• I worked as a leader of the mental health and psychiatry service of an oncological institution dedicated to the care of adult patients (clínica Colsubsidio 127)