Francis Creed, MD, FRCP, FRCPsych., F.Med.Sci
Professor of Psychological Medicine
University of Manchester, U.K.


Francis Creed is Professor of Psychological Medicine at the School of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences at the University of Manchester. He has held this post since 1997 and has directed his research efforts towards evaluating the aetiology and treatment medically unexplained symptoms and psychological disorders associated with physical disease. He also served as Research Dean for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy at the University of Manchester 1997-2001. Francis Creed is Director of Research & Development for the Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust (2002-) and Editor of Journal of Psychosomatic Research (1999-). He is a member of the U.K. MRC Advisory Board and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK). He is currently President of the European Association of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics, which aims to improve the psychological care of medical patients by developing C-L Psychiatry services across Europe.

Francis Creed attended medical school at Cambridge University and St. Thomas’ Hospital in London. He trained in London at the Maudsley & London Hospitals and as a Leverhulme Mental Health Research Fellow at the London Hospital. He became Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Manchester Royal Infirmary (1981-) and Professor of Community Psychiatry (1992-7) at the University of Manchester. During this time he developed major research programmes in liaison psychiatry (especially gastroenterology) and community psychiatry (particularly the evaluation of day hospital care and intensive case management for people with psychotic disorders).