Lisa Dikomitis

PROFESSOR LISA DIKOMITIS

PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

KENT AND MEDWAY MEDICAL SCHOOL, UK

Professor Lisa Dikomitis is a Belgian-Cypriot anthropologist working in global health, medical education and health service research. She was educated in Dutch, holds UG and PG degrees in Anthropology and Sociology, Education and History of Art from universities in Belgium. Her doctoral research was an ethnographic study about and with refugees on Cyprus.

She was awarded her PhD in March 2010 and worked at Ghent University in Belgium before moving to the UK in 2012. She worked at the Hull York Medical School, before taking up her first permanent position as Lecturer at the University of Hull in March 2014, moved to Keele’s School of Medicine as Senior Lecturer in July 2016, where she was promoted to full Professor in December 2019. She joined the Kent and Medway Medical School in January 2022.

Professor Dikomitis successfully balances research, teaching, postgraduate supervision, public engagement, outreach activities and senior leadership responsibilities. With external funding exceeding £13M, >70 publications, international keynotes, prestigious editorial roles and several highly visible roles at the UK’s main medical and social science research funding bodies, she is internationally recognised as a leading social scientist in medicine.

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