Pro Vice Chancellor (Medical Sciences) at Newcastle University
Professor David Burn took up the position of Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Medical Sciences on the 1st February 2017. The Faculty delivers impact through excellence in and close integration of research, teaching and engagement across three research institutes and five schools.
Professor Burn is also Professor of Movement Disorders Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist for Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His first degree was at Oxford (Physiological Sciences), returning to his native North East for clinical training and early medical jobs, including neurology. After further neurology training and undertaking research in London (National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square and Hammersmith Hospital) he was appointed as a Consultant Neurologist and Senior Lecturer in Newcastle in 1994.
Professor Burn has an international reputation for research in dementia associated with Parkinson’s. He is an Emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator and chaired the NIHR Translational Research Collaboration for Dementia (2017-2023). He was chair of the Northern Health Science Alliance Board 2017-2024 and was President of the Association of British Neurologists between 2019-2021.
He is President Elect of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (2023-25) and was elected to Council of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2023.