Zafra cooper biography definition

The Oxford team

CREDO is directed by Christopher Fairburn and Zafra Cooper

Christopher G Fairburn – DM, FMedSci, FRCPsych

Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Director of CREDO

Contact: credo@medsci.ox.ac.uk

I trained in medicine at Oxford and in psychiatry in Edinburgh.

Zafra cooper biography definition

I then spent two years there as a Lecturer in Psychiatry before returning to Oxford in 1979. In 1981 I embarked on full-time clinical research supported initially by the Medical Research Council and since 1984 by the Wellcome Trust (initially as a Wellcome Senior Lecturer and latterly as a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow).

I am a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and I have twice been a Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

I have two main research interests:

1. The nature and treatment of eating disorders