Renato D. Alarcón is an emeritus professor of Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and works at Cayetano Heredia University.
He was born in Arequipa, Peru and would go on to graduate from Cayetano Heredia University as a surgeon in 1966.
Renato did Psychiatric postgraduate training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1970, where we received his Master's degree in Public health.
[2] Alarcón serves as the Deputy Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Emory University.
He was also the director of the Mood Disorders Unit at the Mayo Psychiatry and Psychology Treatment Center.