Ayahuasca Research in an Adapted Traditional Framework

Simon Ruffell

Simon studied medicine at the University of Sheffield before specializing in psychiatry. Simon has an interest in transcultural psychiatry, having worked as a doctor overseas in Northern Uganda. He now works in psychedelic research, with a focus on ayahuasca and has spent the last five years conducting research into the use of ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon. He also works as a psychiatrist at The Maudsley Hospital in South London, as well as working as a Senior Research Associate at King’s College London looking at the use of psilocybin in treatment-resistant depression. He is currently completing a PhD looking at the the use ayahuasca in the Amazon and associated mental health outcomes.