Dr Mark Hamer
| Name: Mark Hamer | Email: m.hamer@ucl.ac.uk |
| Title: Dr | Tel: +44 (0)20 76795969 Internal x 45969 |
| Position: | Fax: +44 (0)20 7813 0242 |
| Department: Epidemiology & Public Health, Div of Population Health | Address: 1 - 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB |
| Research Theme: Ageing & Wellbeing , Cardiovascular medicine, Mental Health, Population health | Web Page: www.ucl.ac.uk/psychobiology |
Research & Teaching Profile
| Research Interests: Psychosocial stress and CVD; Psychobiology of physical activity; Physical activity and cardiovascular health; Dietary risk factors; Ageing and mental health |
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Research Description: Dr Hamer's research involves analysing epidemiological data from several large studies, including Whitehall II, the Health Surveys, and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, and also laboratory based experimental work and falls into the following 5 areas: 1. Psychosocial stress and CVD – understanding behavioural and pathophysiological processes that underlie the association between psychosocial stress and CVD; 2. Psychobiology of physical activity – understanding the biological processes that underlie the mental health benefits of physical activity and looking at effects of exercise on psychophysiological responses; 3. Physical activity and cardiovascular health – examining the association between physical activity, CVD risk markers and various clinical CVD endpoints; 4. Dietary factors and CVD – interested in the effects of dietary anti-oxidants and flavonoid rich foods on CVD risk markers and diabetes; 5. Biological processes of ageing – interested in how biological markers of ageing, such as inflammation, are related to mental and physical function. |
| UCL Collaborators: Dr Emmanuel Stamatakis, Dr Gita Mishra, Dr Eric Brunner, Dr Tarani Chandola, Dr Panayotes Demakakos, Prof Andrew Steptoe |
| External Collaborators: Dr Gary O'Donovan, Dr John Saxton |
| Conditions: Mental disorders, Heart disease, Physical fitness |
| Methods: Observational, Longitudinal analysis, Epidemiology, Population Survey methods, Self report, Computerised tomography, Haemodynamic monitoring, Cytokine assays, ELISA, Psychophysiological testing, Meta-analysis, ambulatory assessment, accelerometry |
| Keywords: Behaviour, Cardioprotection, Cardiovascular disease, Epidemiology, Exercise, Fitness, Inflammation, Obesity, Mental stress, Physical activity, Psychobiology, Public health, Sports medicine |
| Education Interests: Health Psychology, Sports Medicine |
| Education Description: Dr Hamer teaches Exercise and Health for the MSc in Sports Medicine (UCL Department of Physiology) and MSc in Health Psychology (UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health). I also supervise research projects of several MSc Health Psychology students and PhD students within the Psychobiology group. |
| Publications List: Generated from the UCL research publications database. |
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