Dr Lance M. McCracken is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Head of the Division of Clinical Psychology at Uppsala University in Sweden.

For much of his career, Dr McCracken has been dedicated to chronic pain management and its treatment via clinic-based research focused on developing psychological and interdisciplinary methods. He is also interested in psychological flexibility, the primary treatment process within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Dr McCracken is also Visiting Professor at Kings College London and an Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist at INPUT Pain Management, Guy’s and St Thomas' Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust.

Previous roles include Clinical Lead of the Bath Centre for Pain Services, Head of Psychology at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Bath.

He is the author of the book Mindfulness and Acceptance in Behavioral Medicine and many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is a Fellow of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.