Enrique Zapata-Bravo

Abstract

Enrique Zapata became a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1987. Until 1976 he had lived in Chile and pursued a career in internal medicine; under Allende he had been the director of the Institute of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Chile in Santiago. Forced to leave Chile, with the help of the World University Service, and subsequently finding he needed to retrain if he was to practise in the UK, he decided to change specialism and become a psychiatrist. He was a consultant psychiatrist in Milton Keynes from 1991 to 2002, serving asmedical director from 1996 to 2001. From2002 to 2012 heworked as consultant psychiatrist at StAndrew’sHospital,Northampton, anational tertiary referral centre.Herehewas in chargeof exceptionally complex patients with severe and pervasive disorders, mostly forensic cases.