Professor Bob Lewin
After a previous life in social care Professor Lewin retrained as a clinical psychologist and from 1987 built up a large clinical health psychology department in Edinburgh working with people with a variety of chronic health conditions.
He has developed and evaluated in clinical trials a number of innovative self-management programmes including the Edinburgh Heart Manual a cognitive-behavioural self-management programme for people with heart disease that has since been widely implemented both in the UK and internationally.
In 1995 he was appointed as inaugural Professor of Rehabilitation at the University of Hull where he initiated the Institute of Rehabilitation a multi-disciplinary research facility.
Since 1998 he has been Professor of Rehabilitation at the University of York in 1998. He has directed the British Heart Foundation Care and Education Research Group since 1993 which currently consists of 10 full or part time researchers studying various aspects of chronic disease management.
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