Rona Moss-morris PhD, MSc

Rona Moss-Morris is Professor of Psychology as Applied to Medicine and Head of Health Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London. She is National Advisor to NHS England for Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies for People with Long Term Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, was awarded the British Psychological Society Division of Health Psychology’s Outstanding Contribution to Research Award in 2015, and the Multiple Sclerosis Society MS Research of the Year in 2014. She is an NIHR Programme Grants sub-panel member and Vice-Chair of MS Society Grant Panel (GR2). She is a past editor of Psychology and Health. She has a total of 7205 citations and an H index of 40 (Google scholar, May 2016).

Her teaching experiences include setting up new degree programmes in health psychology and occupational therapy and designing and delivering psychology teaching to medical students. She has supervised 11 PhD’s to completion and is currently supervising 5 PhDs as primary and 4 as the second supervisor. She was awarded the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, Supervisory Excellence Award (2015).