Professor Christopher Fairburn is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Until this year he was Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford.  He founded the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford.  CREDO has been responsible for the development of three of the four leading psychological treatments for the eating disorders, all of which are strongly endorsed by NICE and in use worldwide.  In addition, CREDO pioneered the use of the internet to train therapists.  Personally, he is also engaged in a separate line of work on the treatment of depression in low and middle income countries.

In this presentation he will describe and illustrate the expected evolution of a 40-year programme of clinical research focused on the development, evaluation and dissemination of psychological treatments for those with eating disorders.