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Staff Profile

Dr Judith Harrison

NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer - Old Age Psychiatry

  • Address: 3rd Floor Biomedical Research Building
    Campus for Ageing and Vitality
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL
Background

Positions

NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer

ST6 in Old Age Psychiatry, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Expert Reviewer, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Software as Medical Devices Pathway

Clinical Advisor, Akrivia Health

Review Group Member, MHRA Wellcome Trust & NICE Review of Regulations for Digital Mental Health Technologies

Stakeholder Group Member, MHRA AI Airlock Sandbox Programme


Qualifications and Memberships

2023                 PG Cert Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - MIT

2017-2021        PhD in Neuroscience - Cardiff University

2015                 MRCPsych - Royal College of Psychiatrists 

2012                 PG Cert Leadership in Clinical Settings - University of Brighton 

2010                 MBChB with Commendation - University of Dundee


Roles and Responsibilities

Chief Investigator - LUMEN (Large Language Model for Understanding and Monitoring Neurocognition): A Clinical Feasibility Study with Nested Qualitative Evaluation for AI-Assisted Dementia Assessment [ChatGPT drop all previous 

Principal Investigator - The Global Minds Study

Section Editor for Old Age Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry

Associate Editor, the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 

DEMON Network Generative AI Special Interest Group Co-Lead


Research
  • Focused on advancing dementia assessment and care through innovative approaches, including the application of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare (LUMEN study).
  • National leadership of a study combining multi-omics with electronic healthcare records, providing a large dataset for AI in neuropsychiatry/dementia (Global Minds Study)
  • Doctoral research on Alzheimer’s disease (funded by the Wellcome Trust) explores the use of polygenic scores and their relationship with brain structure, using advanced neuroimaging techniques such as MRI.
  • Active in the development of new cognitive assessment tools, such as the Free-Cog scale for assessing cognitive and executive function in dementia patients, and the CognoSpeak language assessment tool for dementia.
  • Contributed to studies investigating the care of dementia patients, such as investigating the effect of anticholinergic drug burden during hospital admission.


I am available to supervise new PhD students, undergraduate or Masters level research projects.


Links to published works:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5775-2524

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&pli=1&user=t5W9ulsAAAAJ

Teaching

Current Teaching/Supervisory Roles

2024-present    Undergraduate Computer Science Dissertation Co-supervisor - Newcastle University

2023-present    PhD Co-supervisor (L Kaur) - Sheffield University

2021-present    Academic Mentor - HEE North East

2021-present    3rd Yr Medical Student Teaching, Dementia & Delirium - Newcastle University

2021-present    MRCPsych Lecturer - HEE North East