Ajit Shah, MD
(United Kingdom), Deputy Editor IPA Bulletin

Ajit is Jain of Indian origin born in Kenya, and brought up in Kenya, India and the United Kingdom.

He graduated in Medicine from the University of Liverpool and trained as a psychiatrist at St Mary’s Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry in London, United Kingdom. He then worked as an Old Age Psychiatrist for almost two years in Melbourne, Australia.

He is currently a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry in London and Professor of Ageing, Ethnicity and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, United Kingdom. He co-chaired the Service Delivery Task Force at the IPA for several years until 2006, and he also has been an active IPA member on several other initiatives. He is on the editorial board of International Psychogeriatrics.  He was recently appointed as Deputy Editor of IPA Bulletin.

He has widespread research interests including elderly suicides, BPSD, violence, health economics as applied to mental health, capacity to consent, mental health legislation, trans-cultural psychiatry, forensic geriatric psychiatry and squalor syndrome. He has a particular interest in the development of old age psychiatry services for ethnic minority elders in the United Kingdom.

Ajit Shah can be contacted at ajit.shah@wlmht.nhs.uk

 

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