Christopher C.H. Cook

  • Christopher C.H. Cook

    Chris was Senior Lecturer at the National Addictions Centre in London from 1994 to 1997, and Professor of the Psychiatry of Alcohol Misuse at the University of Kent from 1997 to 2003. He was Director of the Centre for Spirituality, Theology & Health at Durham University until his retirement in 2022. He was Director of the inter-disciplinary and inter-professional MA/MSc programme in Spirituality, Theology & Health at Durham University from 2012-2020, receiving an honorary mention in the Expanded Reason Awards in Rome in 2017. He was Chair of the Executive Committee of the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists 2009-2013 (and again from 2021) and President of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality 2014-2018. He is an Honorary Chaplain with Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. He is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.

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