John T. O'Brien, DM 
(England, United Kingdom), Board of Directors

John O’Brien is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry within the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University, UK. His basic medical training was undertaken at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, he subsequently trained in Old Age Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, the University of Melbourne and in East Anglia, UK. His current post involves a combination of clinical, research and teaching duties. He is lead consultant for the Newcastle Memory Clinic, a specialist service for the early diagnosis of those with cognitive disorders. His main research interests are

1) neurobiological (particularly vascular) factors in late life depression and cognitive impairment

2) dementia with Lewy bodies

3) neuroimaging (especially MRI and SPECT) changes in depression and dementia.

He has been an IPA board member since 2003. He was also co-chair of the IPA regional meeting held in Newcastle in 2000 and a co-chair of the IPA special expert meeting on vascular burden of the brain. He is Deputy Editor of International Psychogeriatrics, was a member of the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for dementia group, is on the editorial board for Psychological Medicine and the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and is President Elect of the International College of Geriatric Neuropsychopharmacology (ICGP).

Prof. O’Brien was re-elected to the IPA Board of Directors in 2007. He can be contacted at j.t.o'brien@newcastle.ac.uk.

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