Dr Lisa Mellon is a health psychologist and humanistic psychotherapist, and has been a lecturer in RCSI since 2014. She lectures on health behavior change theory and communication skills with undergraduate and graduate medicine, physiotherapy and pharmacy.

She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Professions Education in RCSI, and has a National Teaching Award (2021) from the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. She is a certified Lifestyle Medicine practitioner (British Society of Lifestyle Medicine) and is involved in development and teaching on the RCSI Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine. In research, Lisa has expertise in systematic reviews of behavioural interventions in a number of different health conditions, including organ transplantation, stroke, heart failure, medication adherence and smoking cessation