Ernest Gralton is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in Adolescent Developmental Disabilities was Associate Medical Director for Developmental Psychiatry at St Andrew's Healthcare, Northampton, and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.
He completed his undergraduate medical degree in 1986 at the University of New South Wales in Australia graduating with honours and worked in Sydney and the Illawarra before joining the Oxford Psychiatric training rotation in the UK. He obtained his Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1994 and completed post membership training in both the Psychiatry of Learning Disability and Forensic Psychiatry in the South West England rotation and was awarded a dual certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in 2000. He works at Malcolm Arnold House a specialist secure facility for adolescents with developmental disabilities who require secure care. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2010.