UK SMART Recovery welcomes Marcantonio Spada as the new Chair of their Board of Trustees

The Board of SMART Recovery International welcomes Professor Marcantonio Spada as the new Chair of the UK SMART Recovery Board of Trustees.  Marcantonio has served UK SMART as a trustee since 2015. He succeeds Professor Robin Davidson who was the Chair until March 2020.  

 Marcantonio brings with him a wealth of experience in the field of addictive behaviours across the public and private sectors.  He is currently appointed Professor of Addictive Behaviours and Mental Health at London South Bank University where he is also the Deputy Lead of the Centre of Addictive Behaviours Research.  He was recently appointed Fellow of the British Psychological Society for his scientific contribution to understanding the role of cognition in addictive behaviours. Marcantonio is also a Trustee of GambleAware and Editor-in-Chief of the leading addiction and psychiatry journal Addictive Behaviours.  He has been working as a Clinician for the last 20 years.

 You can read more about Marcantonio’s appointment and the work of UK SMART Recovery at this LINK