Staff profile: Dr Andy McEwen
Position: Honorary Research Fellow
Email: andy.mcewen@ucl.ac.uk
Biography
Andy worked as a nurse in acute and forensic psychiatry before specialising in the field of substance misuse treatment. In 1997 he completed an MSc in Addictive Behaviour at St George’s Hospital Medical School before beginning his clinical and then academic career in smoking cessation there with Professor Robert West. In 2003 he took up post as Assistant Director of Tobacco Studies and Senior Research Nurse at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London and in 2005 received a PhD for his thesis, Smoking Cessation in General Practice.
Andy is the Director of the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training, Director of the Smoking Cessation Services Research Network and co-founder and Programme Director of the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference. Andy is lead author of the Manual of Smoking Cessation and co-author of the Stop Smoking Handbook. He is an Assistant Editor of the journal Addiction, referees for a variety of other academic journals and also acts as a consultant to the Department of Health, NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) and to a number of primary care trusts and overseas governments on the delivery of smoking cessation treatment services.
Andy is currently working with Dr Ruth Harris to investigate the effect of master’s degree education on the careers of nurses, and is piloting a method for bringing good quality dissertations of clinical significance to publication.
Interests
Current research interests include clinical trials and evaluations of behavioural treatments and service innovations, surveys of health professionals, pharmacokinetic studies on nicotine delivery systems and various training, quality of care and nursing projects.
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