Professor Chris Fox
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Honorary Consultant Psychogeriatrician Norwich Medical School University of East Anglia and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Speaker's biography
Professor Chris Fox is a consultant psychiatrist and provides specialist memory services part-time.
His main role is as a clinical academic with research areas in dementia:
(1) Medication and dementia – antimuscarinic and sedative medication using big data to improve current understanding into harms, benefits and causation contribution to dementia. (2) Developing new interventions to prevent deterioration and improve care in people with cognitive impairment. (3) Understanding the role of inflammation in cognitive impairment dementia and delirium with potential for new drug discovery. (4) Digital platforms for carers and people with dementia. (5) Medication usage in people with dementia.
His research in these areas has been funded by the NIHR, MRC, the Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK.