Enrique Zapata-Bravo

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 as medical director from 1996 to 2001. From 2002 to 2012 he worked as consultant psychiatrist at St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton, a national tertiary referral centre. Here he was in charge of exceptionally complex patients with severe and pervasive disorders, mostly forensic cases.Throughout these years and until shortly before his death he worked for…
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