Health Behaviour Research Centre

UCL 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 UCL; occasional lecturer at external institutions

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

Qualifications
2010 MSc Neuroscience, University College London
2008 PGCLTHE, University College London
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,
UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

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