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Professor Christopher G Fairburn

 

Professor Christopher Fairburn

Professor Christopher G Fairburn, DM, FMedSci, FRCPsych

Current Posts

  • Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, University of Oxford
  • Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
  • Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Healthcare Trust
  • Governor, The Wellcome Trust

Career

Professor Fairburn trained in medicine at Oxford and in psychiatry at Edinburgh. He returned to Oxford in 1979. He was awarded a Wellcome Senior Lectureship in 1984 and a Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship in 1996.

 

Professor Fairburn has a well established international reputation for his research on the nature and treatment of eating disorders. He has a particular interest in the development and evaluation of psychological treatments and is especially well known for his development of cognitive behavioural and interpersonal treatments for patients with eating disorders, all of which are supported by robust research evidence and are widely practised nationally and internationally.

 

Professor Fairburn has twice been a Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and he is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. Professor Fairburn was awarded the “Outstanding Researcher Award” by the Academy for Eating Disorders in 2002. He is a Governor of the Wellcome Trust, the largest international biomedical research foundation.

 

Professor Fairburn has held research grants both in Britain and the United States and has published extensively in the field (see Selected publications). His latest book is Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders, Guilford Press, New York (2008). Other books include Binge Eating: Nature, Assessment and Treatment (with GT Wilson, Guilford Press, New York, 1993); Eating Disorders and Obesity: A Comprehensive Handbook (with KD Brownell, Guilford Press, New York - first edition in 1995; second edition in 2002); and the Science and Practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (with DM Clark, Oxford University Press, 1997).

 

He has also written a book for people with binge eating problems (Overcoming Binge Eating, Guilford Press, New York, 1995) and a book on the treatment of obesity titled Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Obesity: A Clinician’s Guide (with Z Cooper and DM Hawker, Guilford Press, New York, 2003).

 

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