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Staff Profile

Dr Charlotte Allan

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer

  • Telephone: 0191 2468753
  • Address: Memory Assessment and Management Service,
    Campus for Ageing and Vitality,
    Newcastle upon Tyne,
    NE4 6BE
Background

Key interests

Psychiatry, Dementia; Depression, Delirium, Late life mood disorder; Neuroimaging; Medical education, Clinical Trials; Epidemiology;

Qualifications

Diploma in Geriatric Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, 2015

MD (Res) University College London, 2014

MRCPsych, 2011

MBChB (Hons), University of Leeds, 2006

BA (Hons) Health-Care Ethics, University of Leeds, 2004

Clinical roles and responsibilities

  • Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.
  • Lead Consultant Newcastle Memory Assessment and Management Service
  • Assistant Medical Director, Central Community CBU

Other roles and responsibilities




Research

My research focuses on dementia and depression in late life. By understanding more about the causes of these conditions I seek to identify how people can boost their resilience to illness, and maintain an active and healthy old age. I am interested in how individuals can reduce their risk of dementia and depression by addressing risk factors (e.g. for cardiovascular disease), and through using medication to prevent and treat disease. 

My approach combines epidemiology and brain imaging, and sits at the interface of psychiatry and neuroscience. I have experience of working with healthy controls (Whitehall Imaging Cohort, University of Oxford) and using Magnetic Resonance Imaging to explore risk factors for memory loss and depression. In addition, I am interested in how clinical services can best support patients in terms of reaching a diagnosis of dementia, and in offering patients opportunities to trial new treatments through commercial clinical trials.

 


Teaching

Teaching and training is an integral part of my role and I am always keen to encourage students and junior doctors with an interest in Old Age Psychiatry. I am accredited as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA, 2011) and was Tyne Base Unit Lead for Mental Health co-ordinating medical student psychiatry teaching in the Tyne Base Unit, Newcastle University (2016 - 2020)

I lecture on Old Age Psychiatry to undergraduate courses and to postgraduate audiences including GPs and specialty trainees.

I am an accredited Educational/Clinical supervisor for Higher Trainees and FY2s.

Publications