Rina Dutta is an MRC Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital.  She graduated from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ in 2000 with a first class honours degree and two distinctions in Medicine.

Rina worked at St Thomas’ Hospital as a House Officer and then trained in Psychiatry as a Senior House Officer at St George’s, before joining the Institute of Psychiatry as a Clinical Researcher and Specialist Registrar in 2005.

In 2007 she was awarded her MRC fellowship under the supervision of Professors Matthew Hotopf and Robin Murray.  In 2008 she obtained an MSc with distinction in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  She was awarded the BMA Margaret Temple Research Grant (2007 and 2011) and was named Royal Society of Medicine Young Research Trainee of the Year (2011).  Her PhD was on the subject of Suicide and Premature Death following first episode psychosis. 

In 2012 she founded SUMMIT (the SUicide, self-harM and Mortality InTerest group) at King’s Health Partners.  Her research interests include suicide, self-harm, causes of premature mortality, mental and physical co-morbidities.

Rina sub-specialises in Liaison and Occupational Psychiatry.  Since 2009 she has worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist for the National Affective Disorders Service at the Maudsley Hospital, providing a specialist clinic for treating mood disorders in health care professionals.