Manuel Isaías López ( May 20 , 1941 - November 29 , 2017 ) was a prominent child psychiatrist , trained in Philadelphia . Many consider Manuel Isaías López to be the father of Mexican Child and Adolescent Psychiatry . In 1972 , he founded the first Child and Adolescent Psychiatry subspecialty program in Mexico , at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM ) . He also founded and was the first president of AMPI ( Mexican Child Psychiatry Association ) in 1975 . He was the training director of the only Child and Adolescent Psychiatry training program in Mexico , at UNAM , from 1972 until 1998 . In the last quarter of the twentieth century , Manuel Isaías López was considered the most influential psychiatrist in Mexico . In the early eighties , he was simultaneously President of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association ; Secretary General of the Mexican Board of Psychiatry ; Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UNAM ; and Main Consultant to the System for the Integral Development of the Family ( DIF ) , a nationwide government funded system of child and family guidance centers . His later contributions were in Bioethics , and he evolved into a researcher within this field and an International Psychoanalytic Association officer . Manuel Isaías López was born into a middle-class family on 20 May 1941 . Raised as an only child in downtown Mexico City , López 's father , Isaías López Suárez , was a Spanish prestigious downtown " abarrotero " ( grocer ) who owned his own food store . López 's mother , Carmen Gómez Alatriste ( de López ) , came from a Mexican family with historical lineage in Puebla . Her family had been much involved in the Mexican Liberal Movement of the 19th Century . Carmen 's cousin , Aquiles Serdán Alatriste , was a notable figure of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 . Carmen was also great granddaughter of Miguel Cástulo Alatriste , a Governor of Puebla who fought as a liberal and was slayed during the " Guerra de Reforma " ( Reform War ) . Manuel Isaías López was exposed to eminent Mexican intellectuals since he was a child . The influence of his academician uncle , Sealtiel L. Alatriste , and the writer and painter Dr. Atl ( Gerardo Murillo ) early on promoted his interest of the in-depth study of ideas and emotions . López 's mother and grandmother often invited famous members of the Mexican cultural circles to their apartment in San Juan de Letrán Avenue , in downtown Mexico City . The building where López grew up housed the " Café Súper Leche " , which later gained national prominence when the building collapsed in the 1985 Mexico City earthquake . Many of López 's friends from childhood and their families died in the event
1985 Mexico City earthquake
1985 Mexico City earthquake
Manuel Isaías López