H O N O R A R Y F E L L O W S
Professor Jo Hart (UK)
Jo Hart is a Professor of Health Professional Education and a Health Psychologist. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is based at the University of Manchester, UK where she is Deputy Head of the Division of Medical Education (https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/jo.hart.html). Jo studies the education and training of health care professionals and has particular interests in healthcare professional behaviour and in communication about lifestyle behaviours and has more than 50 publications. She is part of the team at Manchester who have developed Tent Pegs, a toolkit for health professionals to support patients with lifestyle behaviour change. Jo is health professional education lead for The Change Exchange, a project in which health psychologists volunteer to work with health partnerships between UK and low-income country healthcare organisations. Nationally, Jo works with Health Education England and Public Health England, influencing the use of behavioural science in education and training. She is Chair of the British Psychological Society Division of Health Psychology and is interested in the development of health psychology in the UK and globally. Jo is EFPA standing committee for psychology and health UK representative. She has been a longstanding member of the EHPS, first joining a CREATE workshop in 2000 and since then been involved in a number of ways. Jo is part of the EHPS UN sub-committee and EHPS UK National Delegate and has had organisation/leadership roles in the St Andrews 2001 and Bath 2008 EHPS conferences.
Associate Professor Konstadina Griva (Singapore)
Konstadina Griva [MSC, PHD (University College London, UK) is an Associate Professor of Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Imperial College and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (http://www.lkcmedicine.ntu.edu.sg/aboutus/Faculty-and-Staff/Pages/Konstadina-Griva.aspx). An internationally recognised researcher in the field of PsychoNephrology, Konstadina has a strong track record in initiating and leading collaborative research to map patients’ journey Chronic Kidney Disease and the implementation of pragmatic interventions to improve patient engagement and care outcomes. The platform of this work entails prospective observational studies of patients and caregivers in context of Chronic Kidney Disease and other chronic conditions and more recently the use of digital/technology-based interventions to supplement usual care. For her science, she has received the 2013 research paper award by the European Renal Association- European Dialysis and Transplantation Association and the 2017 Excellent Researcher Award by the National University of Singapore. She has served on numerous professional and advisory groups, including the National Working group on Patient Empowerment, Ministry of Health Singapore, the Society of Behavioural Health Singapore (Founding Member) and the Research Taskforce of the National Kidney Foundation Singapore. She has been an active member in EHPS since 1996, supporting the Society and EHPS community. She is one of the pioneer members to form CREATE EHPS and organised the inaugural CREATE workshops 1999-2001. She is on the editorial board of EHPS journals (i.e. Associate Editor, Psychology & Health 2015 to date; Editor of European Health Psychologist 2014-2018) and has served EHPS conference scientific committees.
Anita DeLongis (Canada)
Anita DeLongis is a Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where she serves as coordinator of the programme in health psychology and of the graduate programme. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Richard S. Lazarus. Her research focuses on stress, coping and social support, with a particular focus on daily stressors or “hassles”. She has most recently examined daily stress experiences as a precursor of sleep disturbance in emergency medical personnel and divorce in stepfamilies. She has extended her work to increase understanding of those coping with chronic illness, such as those living with rheumatoid arthritis or cancer, and those parenting a child with a life-threatening illness. She has put forth a model of relationship-focused coping that examines the role of empathic responding and support provision in responding to global pandemics, and is currently engaged in research on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.
Ari Haukkala (Finland)
Dr. Ari Haukkala has been active in health psychology research since the 1990s. As one of the leading PIs in social and health psychology in Finland, he has worked in numerous areas and trained a number of students to become active, influential scholars in the field. His research interests have spanned various areas, from smoking prevention and psychosocial factors in chronic diseases and related behaviours such eating behaviours, to more recently to psychology of genetic testing and digital interventions for health. Dr. Haukkala has been highly influential in bringing up a new generation of health psychology researchers in Finland. He is co-director of the Behaviour Change and Wellbeing Research group (www.bit.do/bcwb) at the University of Helsinki. Currently he is Fellow (2019-21) at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki. His current projects examine the psychosocial and behavioural outcomes of delivering polygenetic risk information for coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes and improving home dialysis treatment with new technology among dialysis patients.
Karen Morgan (Ireland)
Karen Morgan is currently the Deputy Dean at the Perdana University Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She has been a member of EHPS since 2004 when as a first year PhD student she attended a CREATE workshop and the EHPS conference in Helsinki. Since 2004 she has been Chair of CREATE, Chair of Synergy, EHPS Secretary and EHPS President. Her research interests include ageing, women’s health and the health of vulnerable populations. Karen’s work has been used to guide National policy and practice in Ireland and she has represented the Irish Department of Health on European projects. Since 2017 she has chaired the Psychology Judging Committee for the Global Undergraduate Awards. In Malaysia she is working to build capacity in Health Psychology by facilitating the provision of training to a wide range of groups including healthcare professionals, students and members of the public. She is also working with a team who are adapting and creating methods of data collection that are culturally relevant for the Asian context.
Efrat Neter (Israel)
Efrat is an Associate Professor at the Ruppin Academic Center in Israel. Her research focuses around examining the role of eHealth literacy in digital health and changing health behaviors on a population level. She has worked continuously on country-wide cancer prevention programs of breast and colorectal early detection, initiating large, population level effectiveness interventions to enhance screening. Moreover, the continuous translational work yielded impact in terms of increasing percentages of cancer diagnoses in early stage and cancer survival. Her work was published in leading international journals. Efrat served in the EHPS Executive Committee (2010-2016) as a National Delegates Officer and Membership Officer. She also served in Awards committees (2012-2015, 2020) and since 2014 Efrat has been a member of the United Nations Committee in the EHPS and a member of EHPS Task Force on core competencies in health psychology (2018-2019).
Molly Byrne (Ireland)
Molly is a Professor of Health Psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Molly joined the School of Psychology in NUI, Galway in 2004, where she has directed the MSc in Health Psychology and Structured PhD in Psychology and Health, and established the new Structured PhD in Health Psychology Practice with her colleague Dr Jenny McSharry. She was awarded a Health Research Board (HRB, Ireland) Research Leadership Award in 2014 to establish and direct the Health Behaviour Change Research Group (HBCRG, https://www.nuigalway.ie/hbcrg/). The HBCRG aims to improve population health by developing and promoting an evidence-based behavioural science approach to health behaviour change interventions, working closely with practice and policy stakeholders, focusing primarily on interventions to support management and prevention of chronic illnesses (especially diabetes and cardiovascular disease). Molly has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and has secured over 9 million euro in research funding. Molly is committed to developing Health Psychology in Ireland and internationally. She has been a member of EHPS since 2000 and has presented her work at EHPS conferences every year since then (except 2 – she blames babies!). She was EHPS National Delegate for Ireland (2011 – 2015) and was elected to the EHPS Executive Committee in 2014, where she was Grants and Education Officer. She was on the Organising Committee for the EHPS Annual Conference in Galway in both 2005 and 2018, as Deputy Chair of the Committee in 2018. She was honoured to deliver a keynote address at the EHPS Annual Conference 2018. She is past Chair of the Psychological Society of Ireland Division of Health Psychology Committee and remains invested in developing Health Psychology research, practice and training in Ireland.
Lucie Byrne-Davis (UK)
Lucie Byrne-Davis is a Health Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the University of Manchester, UK (https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/lucie.byrne-davis.html), where she is the lead for behavioural and social sciences for undergraduate medicine. Lucie’s research and practice aim to enhance health worker practice through the application of behavioural science. An advocate for coproduction, she has influenced the practice of over 20 healthcare organisations, including international NGOs and UK Governmental bodies, by increasing their use of behavioural science, whilst co-researching the efficacy and feasibility of the methods. Committed to supporting health psychology practice in low-resource settings, she co-founded and directs The Change Exchange: a hub for volunteering, consultancy and research in behavioural science and health worker practice. The Change Exchange has worked in countries including Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique, India, Nepal Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Malawi and Sierra Leone, in clinical issues as diverse as acute illness management, student mentoring, antimicrobial stewardship, midwifery, medication safety, infection control and mental health nursing. Lucie co-developed the Cards for Change, a tool to encourage health educators to use behaviour change techniques and open access eLearning for health worker educators, which has been used in over 90 countries across 5 continents. Her history with EHPS began when she attended CREATE in 2000 and was then a CREATE committee member for three years. She is the chair of the EHPS UN sub-committee, which seeks to increase the influence of health psychology in the UN and the awareness and activities of EHPS members towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Geert Crombez (Belgium)
Geert Crombez is a Professor of Health Psychology at the Ghent Health Psychology Lab (GHPLAB, www.ghplab.ugent.be, Belgium). He is coordinating the research on the psychology of health and ill-health, and in particular on symptom (pain) perception and interpretation. Foundational to his research is a motivational perspective that is built around the powers of goals and self-regulation. His work on pain-related fear and avoidance had a fundamental impact on the theory and the practice of chronic pain. His experimental work on attention to pain has been seminal in developing and shaping a now well-established research topic. One of his current strategies is to bring the lab into the real world (via ecological momentary assessment and experiments). Taking this interest a step further, he has developed an innovative eHealth programme (“MyActionPlan”) in the context of health promotion and coping with illness. Geert stimulates critical thinking on self-report measures (questionnaires, patient reported outcomes), (mis)use of theoretical concepts (somatization & acceptance), the relevance of empirical data, and the practice/philosophy of science. He is currently (co-)author of over 330 publications, amongst which are six highly cited papers (according to the Web of Science). Geert is (or has been) associate editor of various EHPS and other journals (e.g., Pain, Psychology & Health, Health Psychology Review). He is a strong advocate of a normal psychology on individuals with somatic problems, either medically explained or medically unexplained.
Theresa Marteau (UK)
Dame Theresa Mary Marteau is one of the world’s leading health psychologists and a Professor and the director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge (https://www.bhru.iph.cam.ac.uk/ ). She is Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contributions to public health and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and of the Academy of Social Sciences. Theresa has led numerous large research programmes and published more than 600 publications in scientific journals, including Science, the Lancet, BMJ, and the leading journals in Psychology and Health Psychology. Her scientific contributions have been shaping the development of science and practice in health psychology. Amongst her most outstanding contribution is pioneering work on the behavioural impact of communicating personalised risk information about preventable diseases. Theresa’s work on incentives in Health had substantial impact in science, policy and practice. More recently, Theresa led research programmes and directed the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at Cambridge University, conducting world-leading research on the development and evaluation of interventions to change behaviour (diet, physical activity, tobacco and alcohol consumption) to improve population health and reduce health inequalities, with a particular focus on targeting non-conscious processes. Her work provided a deeper understanding of the potential of nudging interventions and theoretical insight, methodological tools, and policy relevant evidence about the role of micro-environmental factors in population behaviours. Theresa has been pivotal to the development of European Health Psychology and has contributed to the EHPS, its publications and conferences in various roles.
Val Morrison (UK)
Val Morrison is a Professor of Health Psychology at Bangor University, Wales, UK (https://www.bangor.ac.uk/psychology/staff/valerie-morrison/en). She completed her Psychology degree at St Andrews University (in 1983!) before moving to Cambridge to Project Lead a drop-in centre based on a converted double-decker bus offering support to homeless glue sniffers, drinkers and drug abusers. After this she returned to Scotland and studied the drugs-crime association within Scottish prisons, and then completed a part-time PhD as part of a Scottish Office grant studying psychosocial aspects of illicit drug use as HIV/AIDS emerged. In 1991 she returned to St Andrews to work in the emerging field of health psychology with Marie Johnston, identifying psychological predictors of functional and emotional outcomes amongst stroke patients. She attended her first EHPS meeting in Leipzig (1992), and she has only missed 3 or 4 since! Her first lectureship was in Edinburgh (1995), and North Wales has been her home since 1998. As well as supervising many successful PhD students, Val inputs health psychology expertise to multidisciplinary research teams across a range of chronic conditions, identifying patient and carer responses that subsequent interventions address in order to optimise psychosocial outcomes. The research output has to date been supported by over 20 external funding awards amounting to a total of approximately £6.5 million with Val leading on > £1.5m, of this. Her 60+ published papers, various book chapters, one of the first books on Woman & AIDS, a Caregiving in Context book which arose from an EHPS Networking Grant, and a leading European textbook Introduction to Health Psychology, help inform the next generation of research-informed psychologists/practitioners. Val has served on the British Psycho-oncology Society Executive Committee, the Research Impact Committee of the BPS Division of Health Psychology, and actively contributes to the EHPS EC as Grants Officer currently. In 2018 she was personally awarded the honour of Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians for services to health and medical research.
Daryl O’Connor (UK)
Daryl O’Connor is Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds and was Deputy Head of the School between 2006 and 2011. He is a registered health psychologist with strong research interests in psychobiology and currently leads the Health and Social Psychology Research Group in the School as well as heads up the Group’s Laboratory for Stress and Health Research (STARlab; https://sites.google.com/site/doconnorlab/). Daryl has also acted as an Expert Advisor to the World Health Organisation’s Department of Reproductive Health & Research and has been an invited expert to advise upon research strategy at the National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, in the United States. Daryl’s current research focuses on: i) investigating the effects of stress and psychological interventions on health outcomes (e.g. suicide behaviour, ambulatory blood pressure, eating, cortisol reactivity and diurnal cortisol levels) and understanding the role of individual differences variables (e.g. conscientiousness, rumination, perseverative cognition) within the stress process; and ii) exploring the effects of implementation intentions-based interventions on screening behaviours. His work has been published extensively in leading international journals in his field and it has frequently featured on radio and television and in the national and international press. Daryl is a past Chair of the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) Division of Health Psychology and the BPS Psychobiology Section and he is currently Chair of BPS Research Board and Chair of the European Federation of Psychology Associations (EFPA) Board of Scientific Affairs and is a Trustee of the BPS. Daryl is joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychology & Health, serving in this role from 2011 and on. In 2011, Daryl was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, in 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, in 2015, he was elected a Distinguished International Affiliate of the American Psychological Association’s Division 38 (Health Psychology) and in 2017 he was elected Fellow to the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. In addition, to his own recent work Daryl has also been actively involved in promoting open science and improving psychological science nationally and across Europe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H-e_n_eGhE).
Winifred (Winnie) A. Gebhardt (The Netherlands)
Winnie Gebhardt is an associate professor of Health Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University in The Netherlands, and senior researcher at the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition. Her major research interests lie in the development of theory to explain, predict and influence health behavior. She has widely published on the dynamic interaction of health and other personal goals. More recently her research focus has been extended to incorporate the importance of identity processes. of health behavior change. Winnie Gebhardt’s work applies to a broad range of behaviors and people. In healthy populations she has investigated safer sexual practices, exercise, smoking and alcohol behavior amongst adolescents, the elderly and those with a lower socio-economic background. In patient populations she has studied outcomes such as pain experience, goal frustration and quality of life. Moreover, she has evaluated the effects and investigated implementation of interventions to encourage healthier lifestyles or to improve patients’ outcomes and quality of life. Winnie Gebhardt has been an active member of the EHPS since 1992 and has attended the EHPS almost every year. She was a member and National Delegates Officer of the EHPS executive committee from 2006-2008. Together with Efrat Neter she chaired the EHPS task force for European Master’s programs in Health Psychology from 2012-2013. She has also been part of the organizing committee for the EHPS conference in 2000 and has been member of the international program committee for the conferences in 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2011. Winnie Gebhardt has been on the Editorial Board of EHPS’ scientific journal “Psychology and Health” from 2011-2013 and was an Associate Editor of the Journal from 2013-2016. Winnie Gebhardt was also an associate editor of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine from 2011-2015 and is currently a member of its’ scientific board.
Prof. Evangelos (Vangelis) Karademas (Greece)
Evangelos (Vangelis) Karademas is a professor of Clinical Health Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Greece. He is also collaborating with the University of Crete School of Medicine and is a Research Fellow at the Foundation of Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH). His main scientific interest is to analyse factors that define chronic patients’ quality of life, with a special focus on the complex relationships and the feedback loops between various aspects of the self-regulation and adaptation to illness process. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Translational Behavioral Medicine, and he is an editorial board member of six major journals related to Health Psychology. Professor Karademas is an EHPS member since 2004 and has served as the Greek National Delegate for several years. He helped in the organization of five EHPS conferences as a Scientific Program Track Chair. In 2011, he served as the Chair of the Organizing Committee and President of the 25th EHPS Conference in Crete; in 2015, he served as the Liaison Officer and member of the Scientific Committee of the 29th EHPS Conference in Limassol. For the last two years, he serves as a co-opted member of the EHPS Executive Committee.
Gerry Molloy (Ireland)
Gerry is a Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway and a Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Currently Gerry’s main research interests focus on treatment adherence across the lifespan and methodologies used to assess the comparative effectiveness of behavioural and biomedical interventions to improve health. He was a twice-elected member of the Executive Committee of the EHPS between 2010 and 2014 where he served as grants co-ordinator and Chair of the publications committee. He also served as the Chair of the Psychological Society of Ireland-Division of Health Psychology between 2015-2016. Gerry is a past associate editor of both the British Journal of Health Psychology (2013-2016) and the International Journal of Behavioural Medicine (2015-2017). He has been on the editorial board of Psychology & Health since 2011 and was joint Editor of the European Health Psychologist between 2008 and 2010. He was the first external examiner of a new MSc in Health Psychology at University of Aberdeen that was established in 2014. In 2011 he served as the joint-Chair of the Local Organising and Scientific Committee of the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting. This year he is the Chair of the Local Organising Committee of the EHPS Annual Conference in NUI Galway.
Tracey A. Revenson (USA)
Tracey A. Revenson is full professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College and a member of the doctoral faculty of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where she is Director of Research Training for Health Psychology & Clinical Science. Trained as one of the first generation of health psychologists, Prof. Revenson brings a social-ecological perspective to the study of how stress and coping processes affect psychological adjustment to chronic physical illness, and how coping processes are influenced by the social context. Her longtime research interests examine risk and resilience factors among individuals, couples, and families facing rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and COPD, as well as the influence of gender and race/ethnicity on psychosocial adaptation. In addition to numerous chapters and articles, Prof. Revenson is the co-author or co-editor of 12 volumes, among them the Handbook of Health Psychology (3rd edition, 2019), Couples Coping with Stress (2005), Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health & Medicine (2018.) and Caregiving in the Illness Context (2016), which emerged from an EHPS Network Conference in 2015 on Ameliorating Caregiver Stress: Integrating Dyadic Coping and Cultural Frameworks. That book is co-authored by EHPS members Nadia Griva, Aleks Luszczynska, Val Morrison, Efi Panagopoulu, Noa Vilchinsky, & Mariët Hagedoorn. Prof. Revenson was an invited keynote speaker at the EHPS conference in Crete (2010), has chaired multiple symposia and roundtables, and currently serves as Track Chair (with Nadia Griva) for Interventions in Chronic illness. Prof. Revenson is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, the former Senior Editor of Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and a member of the Editorial Board of Health Psychology. A Past-President of the Society for Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association, she is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Health Psychology, and the Society for Behavioral Medicine. In 2013, she was awarded the Nathan Perry Award for Career Contributions to Health Psychology from the Society for Health Psychology.
HONORARY FELLOWS
Honorary Fellows 2020
Anita DeLongis (Canada)
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Ari Haukkala (Finland)
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Karen Morgan (Ireland)
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Efrat Neter (Israel)
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PAST FELLOWS
2019
Molly Byrne (Ireland)
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Lucie Byrne-Davis (UK)
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Geert Crombez (Belgium)
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Konstadina Griva (Singapore)
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Jo Hart (UK)
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Theresa Marteau (UK)
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Val Morrison (UK)
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Daryl O’Connor (UK)
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2018
Winifred (Winnie) A. Gebhardt (The Netherlands)
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Evangelos (Vangelis) Karademas (Greece)
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Gerry Molloy (Ireland)
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Tracey A. Revenson (USA)
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2017
Urte Scholz (Switzerland/Germany)
2016
Denise de Ridder (Netherlands)
2015
Karina Davidson (USA)
Britta Renner (Germany)
2014
Adriana Baban (Romania)
Irina Todorova (Bulgaria)
Mark Conner (UK)
Paul Norman (UK)
Ronan O’Carroll (UK)
Martin Hagger (UK/USA)
Ruth Curtis (Ireland)
2013
Blair T. Johnson (USA)
Gerjo Kok (Netherlands)
2012
Yael Benyamini (Israel)
David French (UK)
Gaston Godin (Canada)
Paschal Sheeran (UK/USA)
2011
Kerry Chamberlain (NZ)
Alexander Rothman (USA)
Falko Sniehotta (UK)
2010
Ad Kaptein (Netherlands)
Aleksandra Luszczynska (Poland)
2009
Charles Abraham (UK)
2007
Juhani Julkunen (Finland)
Maria Kopp (Hungaria)
Teresa McIntyre (USA)
Susan Michie (UK)
Robbert Sanderman (Netherlands)
John Weinman (UK)
2005
Marie Johnston (UK)
Stan Maes (Netherlands)
Hannah McGee (Ireland)
Ralf Schwarzer (Germany)