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| 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 |
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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