Newcastle University

Qualifications

• MD
• DipClinEd
• MRPsych
• MBChB (Edinb)
• BSc (Hons)

• Course Director for the Mental Health Rotations, Newcastle University Medical School (2010 - present)

• MRCPsych Old Age Psychiatry Module Lead (2010 - present)

• Royal College of Psychiatry MRCPsych Exam Panel member (2008 – present)

Research Interests

• Medical education
• Delirium 

Prizes 

• Doctoral Thesis Prize 2011, Newcastle Univeristy 
• ASME New Researcher Award (Runner up) 2011
• BRCS Impact award (3^rd Prize), Institute for Ageing and Health, 2009

Other

• Board Member of the European Delirium Association (2010 - present)  
• Sub editor Annals of Delirium Care (2011 - present)

• Teodorczuk A, Reynish E, Milisen K. Improving recognition of delirium in clinical practice: a call for action. BMC Geriatrics 2012, 12(1), 55.
• Firbank MJ, Teodorczuk A, van der Flier WM, Gouw AA, Wallin A, Erkinjuntti T, Inzitari D, Wahlund LO, Pantoni L, Poggesi A, Pracucci G, Langhorne P, O'Brien JT, LADIS Grp. Relationship between progression of brain white matter changes and late-life depression: 3-year results from the LADIS study. British Journal of Psychiatry 2012, 201(1), 40-45.
• Mukaetova-Ladinska EB, Cerejeira C, Teodorczuk A. Subsyndromal delirium: Relevance to dementia. Annals of Delirium 2012, 7(March), 13-18.
• Longdon A, Paddick S, Kisoli A, Dotchin C, Gray W, Dehurst F, Chaote P, Teodorczuk A, Dewhurst M, Jusabani A, Walker R. The prevalence of dementia in rural Tanzania: a cross-sectional community based study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2012, (epub ahead of print).
• Firbank MJ, Blamire AM, Teodorczuk A, Teper E, Mitra D, O'Brien JT. Diffusion tensor imaging in Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 2011, 194(2), 176-183.
• Firbank MJ, Blamire AM, Teodorczuk A, Teper E, Burton EJ, Mitra D, O'Brien JT. High Resolution Imaging of the Medial Temporal Lobe in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2010, 21(4), 1129-1140.
• Teodorczuk A, Firbank MJ, Pantoni L, Poggesi A, Erkinjuntti T, Wallin A, Wahlund LO, Scheltens P, Waldemar G, Schrotter G, Ferro JM, Chabriat H, Bazner H, Visser M, Inzitari D, O'Brien JT, LADIS Grp. Relationship between baseline white-matter changes and development of late-life depressive symptoms: 3-year results from the LADIS study. Psychological Medicine 2010, 40(4), 603-610.
• Mukaetova-Ladinska E, Teodorczuk A, Cerejeira J. Dementia in the acute hospital. British Journal of Psychiatry 2009, 195(5), 461-462.
• Teodorczuk A, Welfare M, Corbett S, Mukaetova-Ladinska E. Developing effective educational approaches for Liaison Old Age Psychiatry teams: a literature review of hospital staff’s learning needs in relation to managing the confused older patient. International Psychogeriatrics 2009, 22(6), 874-885.
• Teodorczuk A, Welfare M, Corbett S, Mukaetova-Ladinska E. Education, hospital staff and the confused older patient. Age and Ageing 2009, 38(3), 252-253.
• Teodorczuk A, Mukaetova-Ladinska E, Corbett S, Welfare M. The learning needs of general hospital staff: preliminary results. Journal of Dementia Care 2009, 17(4), 37-38.
• Firbank MJ, Blamire AM, Krishnan MS, Teodorczuk A, English P, Gholkar A, Harrison R, O'Brien JT. Atrophy is associated with posterior cingulate white matter disruption in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. NeuroImage 2007, 36(1), 1-7.
• Firbank MJ, Blamire AM, Krishnan MS, Teodorczuk A, English P, Gholkar A, Harrison RM, O'Brien JT. Diffusion tensor imaging in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 2007, 155(2), 135-145.
• Teodorczuk A, Taylor JP, Cerejeira JMS, Mukaetova-Ladinska EB. The need to improve the teaching of assessment of psychiatric symptoms at undergraduate level. Medical Education 2007, 41(12), 1237-1238.
• Teodorczuk A, O'Brien JT, Firbank MJ, Pantoni L, Poggesi A, Erkinjuntti T, Wallin A, Wahlund L-O, Gouw A, Waldemar G, Schmidt R, Ferro JM, Chabriat H, Bazner H, Inzitari D. White matter changes and late-life depressive symptoms: Longitudinal study. British Journal of Psychiatry 2007, 191(3), 212-217.
• Teodorczuk A, Mukaetova-Ladinska E, Corbett S, Welfare M. Reconceptualising models of delirium education: Findings of a Grounded Theory study. International Psychogeriatrics 2012. In Press.