Dr Tom Russ

Consultant Psychiatrist, NHS Lothian
Hon. Clinical Reader, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Clinical Research Champion, Neuroprogressive & Dementia Network
NHS Research Scotland Director, Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre,

Biography

I trained in medicine and psychiatry in Edinburgh, the Highlands, and London and completed a PhD in dementia epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh. I am a consultant psychiatrist in NHS Lothian, working in the memory clinic and two specialist dementia units. I am Network Champion of the NRS Neuroprogressive and Dementia Network and Director of the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

NDN Project/Studies

Ongoing/In Follow-Up

• Evoke and Evoke+ Studies: The effect and safety of Oral Semaglutide in subjects with early Alzheimer’s disease.
  (Principal Investigator)
  

Current Project/Grants

The University of Edinburgh Projects:

• Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Brain Tissue Bank
• Better Understanding Dementia Diagnosis
• Lothian Birth Cohorts
• Lifetime geographic exposome in Swedish twins (LifeGEIST) Advanced Care Research Centre

Key Publications

• Baranyi G, Deary IJ, McCartney DL, Harris SE, Shortt N, Reis S, Russ TC, Ward Thomson C, Vieno M, Cox SR, Pearce J (2022) Life-course exposure to air pollution and biological ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Environment International 169: 107501. View Publication
• Munro D, Kinnaird L, Russ TC, Gambier-Ross K, Wilkinson H, Vincent R (2021) Sharing the diagnosis of dementia in the post-COVID-19 clinic: patient and practitioner perspectives: dementia assessment and diagnosis during lockdown. World Alzheimer Report 2021. Geneva: Alzheimer Disease International. pp182–4. View Publication
• Russ TC, Cherrie MPC, Dibben C, Tomlinson S, Reis S, Dragosits U, Vieno M, Beck RC, Carnell EJ, Shortt NK, Redmond P, Taylor AM, Clemens T, Van Tongeren MJ, Agius R, Starr JM, Deary IJ & Pearce JR (2021) Life course air pollution exposure and cognitive decline: modelled historical air pollution data and the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. J Alzheimers Dis 79: 1063–74. View Publication
• Okely JA, Corley J, Welstead M, Taylor AM, Page D, Skarabela B, Redmond P, Cox SR, Russ TC (2020) Change in Physical Activity, Sleep Quality, and Psychosocial Variables during COVID-19 Lockdown: Evidence from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Int J Environ Res Public Health 18: 210. View Publication
• Russ TC, Killin LOJ, Hannah J, Batty GD, Deary IJ, Starr JM (2020) Aluminium and fluoride in drinking water in relation to dementia death: the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 cohort. British Journal of Psychiatry 216: 29–34. [RCPsych Publishing Prize Winner: most downloaded paper of 2020] View Publication