Fairburn, Christopher G.

Christopher G. Fairburn, DM, FMedSci, FRCPsych, is Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. He is a well-known international authority on eating disorders and has a particular interest in the development and evaluation of psychological treatments. He has twice been a Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a Fellow of the U.K. Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a Governor of the Wellcome Trust, the largest international biomedical research foundation.