Gloria Dura-vila MD, MRCPsych, MSc, PhD

Dr Glòria Durà-Vilà, MD, MRCPsych, MSc, PhD is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Medical Lead for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust. She is Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Mental Health, University College London. She was previously Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London for four years. She is a member of the executive committees of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Special Interest Groups: Transcultural Psychiatry, and Spirituality and Psychiatry. She studied medicine in Valencia, Spain, and was trained in psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at St Mary’s Hospital in London. She completed an MSc and a PhD in Mental Health at University College London. Her research interests focus on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology including culture, spirituality and mental health, the medicalisation of sadness, cultural understanding of sadness and depression, idioms and narratives of distress, and cultural variation in attitudes to young people consenting to health interventions.