Lance McCracken
Lance M McCracken is Professor and Head of Division in Clinical Psychology, Psychology Department, Uppsala University, Sweden, since 2018. He completed his PhD at West Virginia University and a post doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins. During his PhD and post doc he produced several of the early studies of the fear-avoidance model of chronic pain. He joined the departments Psychiatry and in Anesthesia and Critical Care at The University of Chicago from 1994 to 2000. During this time, he published the first study of chronic pain and psychological flexibility, the model underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), in 1998. He was Clinical Lead at the Bath Center for Pain Services in the UK, beginning in 2000 until 2011. While in Bath he organized the first interdisciplinary pain management center focused on ACT as the working model. He left that post to take up a post as Professor of Behavioral Medicine at King’s College London in 2011 and was there until 2018. While at King’s he and his colleagues published the first UK-based study of an online version of ACT for chronic pain. He has more than 30 years of clinical and research experience in psychological and interdisciplinary approaches to chronic pain and other long-term health conditions, predominantly based in contextual behavioral science. He has over 350 scientific publications and is highly cited, over 37,000 times (h = 98).