About
Tom trained in medicine and psychiatry in Edinburgh, the Highlands, and London and completed a PhD in dementia epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Reader in Old Age Psychiatry in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre there. He is an honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service and Network Champion of the NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Neuroprogressive and Dementia Network.
His conflicts of interest are current funding from the Chief Scientist Office (Scottish Government), Alzheimer Scotland, and UK Research and Innovation. He is a Principal Investigator on the Evoke and Evoke+ trials (NovoNordisk) and sub-investigator on other clinical trials but has no financial involvement with pharmaceutical companies.