Professor Stanton Newman, Dean of the School of Health Sciences, joined City University London in September 2010. Professor Newman is a Professor of Health Psychology and completed his B.Soc. Sci. (Hons) degree and doctorate at the University of Natal, South Africa. Professor Newman became a lecturer at LSE and Guys and Middlesex Hospital Medical Schools before joining University of College London. Professor Newman was Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science from 1993 - 2004. In 2003 he set up the Centre for Behavioural and Social Science in Medicine, a unique project to encourage interdisciplinary working in physical illnesses at UCL. He attended the London Business School and ran UCL Consultants Ltd. In 2009 Professor Newman was appointed the Principal Investigator on the Whole Systems Demonstrator Project funded by the Department of Health to evaluate the role of assistive technologies in health and social care. Professor Newman is an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He is a Chartered Clinical and Health Psychologist and engaged directly in clinical work seeing patients at his weekly clinics.