BEAM Development – Part 1

Dr. Jose Mackliff

Behind the development of BEAM was the immense love and scientific curiosity that one doctor had for his schizophrenia patients in a schizophrenic ward of a psychiatric hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He was passionate about understanding the metabolism behind schizophrenia and to find a cure for the terrible disease schizophrenia. He watched his patients daily for 13 years, never improving and only growing more apathetic, stressed by additional chronic diseases with each year.

Dr. Joseph Mackliff’s was head of the San Jose ward of Lorenzo Ponce Psychiatric Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He could have felt disheartened by treating patients with schizophrenia; but instead he felt stimulated by the various metabolic and autonomic questions that arose about the disease. Mackliff’s research grew over 30 years culminating with the first BEAM surgery done on a human in 2006.

The BEAM surgery is a response to the constant discomfort felt by…