Dr Tom Russ

Tom Russ
PhD FRCPsych

I am a Reader in Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh and an honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in NHS Lothian. I am NHS Research Scotland Clinical Lead for Neuroprogressive and Dementia Research and an NIHR Senior Investigator. I am Director of the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre and the interdisciplinary dementia research network Dementia.ED, both at the University of Edinburgh.

I trained in medicine and psychiatry in Edinburgh, the Highlands and London and work clinically with older people with dementia. My PhD was in dementia epidemiology, in particular whether where you live affects your risk of developing dementia.

All my research focuses on dementia and I am interested in clinically-relevant research that makes a difference to people with dementia and their families. I am very enthusiastic about involving people with lived experience of dementia in research.

I work at the Memory Assessment & Treatment Service and look after the two admission wards for people with dementia at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital (Canaan and Fairmile), all in NHS Lothian.