果冻影院

果冻影院 DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH CENTRE

DR LION SHAHAB CPsychol
Lecturer

EXPERTISE
Public health
Tobacco control
Health Psychology
Electrophysiology

RESEARCH
Research interests
Smoking-related biomarkers:

impact of biomarker feedback on cognitive antecedents of behaviour change
feasibility of using biomarker feedback to motivate cessation

Smoking-related diseases:

detection of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases at population level
inter-relationship between disease diagnosis and smoking status

Tobacco product regulation:

evaluation of smoke constituent testing regimes
level of exposure of smokers of different tobacco products to carcinogens
association between tobacco product design and smoke exposure

Tobacco control:

evaluation of legislative changes on use of nicotine replacement therapy
assessment of attitudes in the general population towards new tobacco control strategies

Novel smoking cessation interventions:

development and testing of pharmacological and behavioural treatment for smoking cessation
systematic meta-analytic evaluation of novel interventions

Miscellaneous:

evaluation of smoking-related health education in the medical profession
association of mental well-being with smoking and smoking cessation
early changes in synaptic transmission and plasticity in Alzheimer's Disease

Current research
Smoking toolkit study: Longitudinal investigation of the association self-reported happiness levels among smokers who continue to smoke and those who stop smoking.

Nicotine replacement study: Laboratory study to evaluate the effects on withdrawal symptoms and acceptability of a novel nicotine delivery device.

Internet-based Smoking Cessation Intervention Trial: Development and evaluation of an effective interactive internet-based smoking cessation programme for use in the UK.

ATTEMPT study: International longitudinal cohort study examining a range of short-term physical and mental health outcomes in individuals as a function of smoking status.

GSK3 study: Electrophysiological study of the role of glycogen synthase kinase -3 in hippocampal synaptic transmission in a knockin mouse model.

TEACHING
Course Leader for MSc in Health Psychology at 果冻影院; occasional lecturer at external institutions

BIOGRAPHY
Appointments
2011 - Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, 果冻影院
2007 - Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, 果冻影院
2005 - Freelance Research Psychologist

Qualifications
2010 MSc Neuroscience, 果冻影院
2008 PGCLTHE, 果冻影院
2008 PhD Health Psychology, University of London
2004 MSc Health Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry
2003 BA Psychology, Philosophy & Physiology, University of Oxford

Other
Completing Chartered Health Psychologist Stage II training; Freelance consultancy work; Referee for various international journals and funding organisations; Assistant Editor for Addiction; Supervising activity at Masters and Doctoral level; Internal and external PhD examiner

PUBLICATIONS

This page last modified 25 May, 2011 by Mark Livermore

CONTACT DETAILS
Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7679 1805
Internal: x41805
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7813 2848
Email: lion.shahab@ucl.ac.uk

Postal address: Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health,
果冻影院, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

Office: Room 344,
1-19 Torrington Place,
WC1E 7HB