Richard
Dr Richard Gray is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Section of Psychiatric Nursing at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK. He trained at King’s College as a Mental Health Nurse and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Public Health. He was awarded his PhD in 2001 from King’s College London and in the same year he was awarded a prestigious MRC research training fellowship.
Richard has an international reputation for his clinical and academic work in mental health and has published extensively and regularly presents at national and international conferences.
Richard’s personal interests include painting and travelling.
Promoting shared decision making in mental health is important to Richard because as a trained nurse and senior lecturer he sees two sides. By working with service users he understands the complexities that can arise with lack of communication, as a lecturer he tries to address these and ensure that open honest dialogue between HCP, service user and carer can exist. Richard believes that from working together and promoting shared decision making, better health outcomes can be achieved.
