Tom Dening, MA MD FRCPsych
Tom Dening is Professor of Dementia Research at the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham; and Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
He studied Medicine at Newcastle University and trained in Psychiatry in Cambridge and Oxford. From 1991 to 2012, he was a Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age Psychiatry in Cambridge where he served for ten years as Medical Director of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. In his current post, he leads the Centre for Dementia at the Institute of Mental Health in Nottingham, and he is the clinical speciality lead for Dementia in the East Midlands Clinical research Network.
His interests include the epidemiology of mental disorders in older people, treatment of dementia and depression in older people, psychiatric services, dementia and technology, care homes and other clinical topics. He has also published papers on neuropsychiatry, psychiatric symptoms and the history of psychiatry.He is one of the editors of the Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, the leading international work in this field, with a third edition due to be published in 2020.
