Professor Ian McKeith
Professor of Old Age Psychiatry

  • Email: ian.mckeith@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1313
  • Fax: +44 (0) 191 248 1301
  • Address: Institute for Ageing and Health
    Newcastle University
    Wolfson Research Centre
    Campus for Ageing and Vitality
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE4 5PL

Introduction

Co-Director and Industry Lead / NIHR DeNDRoN National Coordinating Centre

NIHR Senior Investigator

Clinical Co-Director Newcastle BRC on Ageing

Background

Research Interests

I am a founding member of Newcastle University's Institute for Ageing and Health (IAH), a large inter-disciplinary research group spanning molecular mechanisms of cell ageing to clinical intervention studies. Our main research strategies centre upon longitudinal clinical assessment of patients with neurodegenerative disorders with follow up to death and request for brain autopsy. My own studies focused upon Lewy body disease have contributed to the development of globally used Consensus criteria for the clinical and pathological diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and related disorders. I am a longstanding member of UK MRC CFAS www.cfas.ac.uk/ and have led several international multicentre trials of diagnostic and treatments agents.

Current Work

Co-Director and Industry Lead for UK Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases Clinical Research Network (DeNDRoN) www.dendron.org.uk/

Research Roles

Clinical Co-Director of Newcastle NIHR Biomedical Research Centre on Ageing

NIHR Inaugural Senior Investigator of the Faculty

Co-Director of National Co-ordinating Centre of UK Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN)

Lead for International Consortium on Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Esteem Indicators

Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 UK Royal College of Psychiatrists