Jeremy Howick is a Professor at the University of Leicester and the first Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare. His mission is to ensure that a dose of empathy is included in all healthcare consultations, and to achieve this in his current role he is leading a growing team of academics and clinicians to embed a novel empathy curriculum into the medical school, as well as cascade the curriculum to other medical schools and healthcare organisations.

His work includes over 250 papers and 3 books that have been cited over 15,000 times. He has pioneered fundamental methodological research in evidence-based medicine, placebo effects, and empathy. His book The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine, came to define a sub-field in its own right. He remains interested in methodology and is the principal investigator on a Medical Research Council-funded project aimed to improve the way potential trial treatment benefits and harms are communicated to patients.

He has received numerous honours and awards, including the Dawkins and Strutt Award from the British Medical Association, and a gold medal from the European Society for Person-Centred Care.

Jeremy Howick has founded several highly successful courses and research groups, including the Oxford Empathy Programme. He also enjoys communicating the results of his research to the outside world and has written a book Doctor You (Amazon #1 bestseller), given a TEDx Talk on nocebo effects, and has appeared on the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4. The Guardian, The Times, Men’s Health, the Daily Mail, the Huffington Post. He is among the most widely read authors in The Conversation.