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Closing remarks
Andy McEwen
Biography
Andy McEwen is proud to be the co-founder and Programme Director of the UKNSCC.
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 Senior Research Nurse at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London and in 2005 received a PhD for his thesis: Smoking Cessation in General Practice.
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 and to a number of smoking cessation services on the delivery of treatment services. He retains an interest in nursing research and is lead research nurse for St George's NHS Trust. His current research includes surveys of smokers and health professionals, pharmacokinetic studies on nicotine delivery systems and clinical trials of behavioural treatments.
Andy McEwen
Senior Research Nurse
Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit
University College London
London
WC1E 6BT
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