Dr. Alain Gregoire is a Senior Perinatal Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. He began his medical residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology but, upon realizing that women with mental health conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth—despite being among the most severely ill—received the least care, decided to take action and switched to psychiatry. He completed his specialty training in mental health and psychiatry at Maudsley Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry in London.
Dr. Gregoire has been a member of the National Health Service (NHS) Perinatal Mental Health Transformation Board in the United Kingdom for 25 years. She is the founding president of the UK and Ireland Marcé Society (UKIMS), an organization established to support perinatal research. She founded the Hampshire Specialized Perinatal Mental Health Service and the Specialized Maternal and Infant Mental Health Unit, and continues to serve as their director. This center provides comprehensive, integrated community and inpatient services to women with serious mental health issues during pregnancy and the postpartum period. For this work, Dr. Gregoire and her team were honored with the Doctor of the Year and Mental Health Team of the Year awards in 2004 and 2013. She is the founder and president of the UK Maternal Mental Health Alliance, which currently comprises more than 90 national organizations. The BBC documentary she produced, “My Baby, My Psychosis, and Me,” won the Best Documentary Award at the Royal Television Society Awards. By a decision of the Üsküdar University Senate in 2019, she was awarded an honorary doctorate “in recognition of her global-scale activities and scientific research in the field of maternal and infant mental health.”