Professor Stanton Newman is Professor of Health Psychology and Dean of the School of Health Sciences at City University.  He specialises in the psychological and social issues of physical illness and its treatment and has published over 260 research papers and chapters as well as 12 books.   The focus of his work is around the management of chronic disease and in particular the role of self-management as well as the introduction of technologies.   He is the Principal Investigator on the Whole Systems Demonstrator Project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the Department of Health to evaluate the role of assistive technologies in health and social care.  The studies in this program constitute the largest randomized controlled trials on the role and impact of tele-health and tele-care devices.