Nicola Robinson is a Professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrated Health at London South Bank University, UK. Following her PhD in Immunology at Manchester University, she studied acupuncture and qualified as a registered acupuncturist in 1982. She was awarded the Fellowship of the British Acupuncture Council in 2008. In 2004, Nicola was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to visit China for 8 weeks, during which time she explored educational and research initiatives in TCM throughout China. She is currently Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Integrative Medicine (Elsevier) and on the board of other journals. She chairs the Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Research Association (GP-TCM RA) Acupuncture Interest Group (AIG), and has been instrumental in its development and identifying research priorities for collaborative research.

She is Chair/Trustee of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine, UK, and works closely with a range of CAM professional groups and interested researchers to provide a research resource. She is also on the UK advisory group for the Medicines Control Agency.
Nicola has written over 200 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals frequently presenting nationally and internationally. As well as TCM, she also has considerable research experience in public health and health services research focusing on cancer, mental health, diabetes, coronary heart disease, HIV, cystic fibrosis, patient/public engagement and psychosocial aspects of disease. She is currently the principle investigator on a trial comparing face to face delivery of Tai chi with internet delivered Tai chi funded by the Tracie Lawlor Trust for Cystic Fibrosis. She also has funding from the Guys and St Thomas's Charitable Trust to carry out a trial on the use of acupuncture for phantom limb pain and the Ley Foundation, Malaysia for a project on the therapeutic effects of bromelain, a proteolytic enzyme from pineapple.

With various research links in China Nicola has successfully supervised both Chinese and UK PhD and postdoctoral students and currently supervises post graduate students in a number of topic areas which include: muscular skeletal pain, integrated health, phantom limb pain, and osteoarthritis of the knee. She also supervises post-doctoral work on post-marketing surveillance of herbal injections in China.