Andrew Miles MSc, MPhil, PhD, DSc

Professor Andrew Miles is Senior Vice President and Secretary General of the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare (ESPCH). He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Gaining his first Chair at the age of 30, he was formerly Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Social Medicine & Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Buckingham UK, holding previous professorial appointments in the departments of primary care and public health medicine at Guy’s, King’s College and St. Thomas’ Hospitals’ Medical School London and at St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals´ School of Medicine, London. He is a Visiting Professor in Person Centered Healthcare at several European Universities and a Distinguished Academician of the National Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bulgaria and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine USA.

Professor Miles trained at the University of Wales and its Medical School in Cardiff UK and holds two Master’s degrees and two Doctorates, one of the two latter being awarded honoris causa for his contribution to the advancement of person-centered healthcare internationally. He has published extensively in the peer reviewed medical and biomedical press, has co-edited 47 medical textbooks in association with an extensive number of Royal Colleges and medical and clinical societies in the UK and has organised and presided over more than 120 clinical conferences and masterclasses in London as part of a major and long term contribution to British national postgraduate medical education. Professor Miles co-founded the ESPCH in 2013 with Professor Sir Jonathan Asbridge DSc (hc).