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Christopher Eccleston, PhD.
https://christophereccleston.co.uk/
Chris is Professor of Medical Psychology and Pain Science at the University of Bath in the UK where he directs the Centre for Pain Research which is invested in behavioural science and behavioural medicine in chronic pain.
Chris has pioneered digital therapeutics in chronic pain and is the inventor of a Virtual Reality system for the management of chronic pain. He is particularly interested in service redesign and the introduction of expert systems into chronic pain management.
He has published over 300 peer reviewed scientific publications and is widely cited (web of science h-index of 86). In 2018, the International Association for the Study of Pain recognised the contribution Chris had made to pain research by awarding him the prestigious Ronald Melzack Award. In 2021 he was awarded the Patrick Wall Medal for contributions to pain science by the UK Faculty of Pain Medicine.
Chris founded and directed the Bath Pain Management Unit from 1994-2008, including the first residential paediatric pain programme. He continues to consult internationally on the development on new services and team training in chronic pain management. From 2009-2019 he was psychology editor for the journal PAIN, and from 2010 to 2020 he was coordinating editor of Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Cochrane Review Group.
Chris has published three leading books in the field with Oxford University Press. In 2016 he published ‘Embodied: the psychology of physical perception’. In 2018 he co-edited an analysis of investments in pain treatment in 37 European countries, in the book ‘European Pain Management’. And, in 2020, working with Dr Elaine Wainwright, he published a ‘Work and pain: a lifespan development approach’.
He Led the Lancet Delivering transformative action in paediatric pain: a Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission (DOI: 10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30277-7)
