John Weinman

Professor John Weinman is Professor of Psychology as applied to Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry in the Kings College London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the European Health Psychology Society and of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He has played a major role in the development of academic and professional health psychology in the UK. His main research areas are cognition and health, communication and decision-making in health care, stress, wound healing and recovery from surgery, and self-regulation and self-management in chronic illness. He was the founding editor of Psychology and Health : an International Journal and has edited and written a large number of books, chapters and research papers in the field of health psychology.He was previously Chair of the Population & Behavioural Sciences Committee of Cancer Research UK.
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