Emeritus Professor of Old Age Psychiatry
Ian McKeith is Emeritus Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Newcastle University, where he has held his chair since 1994. He was theme lead of the Newcastle NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Lewy Body Dementias (2012- 2017), and Director of the UK National Institute for Health Research Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disease Network Clinical Research Network (DeNDRoN) (2005-2015). His dementia research career has included clinico-pathological brain banking studies, population-based epidemiology, biomarker development and clinical trials. He established the Consortium on Dementia with Lewy Bodies which developed consensus guidelines for diagnosis and treatment which are used globally and have been incorporated into DSM5 and ICD11. He was an NIHR Inaugural Senior Investigator and has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the International DLB Consortium, the American Alzheimer Association, and the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists, Old Age Faculty.