Dr Andy McEwen

Chief Executive

National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training

Biography

Andy worked as a nurse in acute and forensic psychiatry before specialising in the field of substance misuse treatment. In 1997 he completed an MSc in Addictive Behaviour at St George’s Hospital Medical School before beginning his clinical and then academic career in smoking cessation there with Professor Robert West. In 2003 he took up post as Assistant Director of Tobacco Studies and Senior Research Nurse at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London and in 2005 received a PhD for his thesis, Smoking Cessation in General Practice.

Andy was co-founder of the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training in 2009 and remains its Chief Executive to date. He was founder and Programme Director of the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference. Andy has published over 200 papers in academic peer-reviewed journals.