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Dr Catherine Dotchin

Catherine joined the AGE Research Group in October 2024 as a Clinical Senior Lecturer. She has been involved in ageing research since 2005, completing an MD on the epidemiology of Parkinson’s disease in Tanzania whilst a registrar in Geriatric Medicine in the North East. This project led to further epidemiological work around the prevalence and impact of diseases in older people in Tanzania, such as dementia and frailty, and subsequently gaining an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer post.

Since completing her clinical training, and gaining an NHS consultant post in 2011 at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Catherine has supervised over 40 MRes students on global health topics and is an active PhD supervisor, with two supervisees having successfully completed projects in Tanzania and a further two projects ongoing (one in Tanzania and one in Kenya). She is passionate about enabling early career students and doctors to be involved in ageing and global health research. She has been a Foundation Tutor for the trust since 2017.

As an honorary consultant she will continue to run a general geriatrics clinic, a community multidisciplinary team and contribute to elderly assessment centres in Northumberland.

In 2022, along with colleagues from Newcastle University and 7 African countries, she is part of an NIHR Global Health Research Group on Transforming Parkinson’s disease Care in Africa. Catherine is the training lead for this award.

As a new member of the AGE research group, Catherine looks forward to bringing her experience of research into ageing in diverse settings and education and training to the group and is keen to get involved with the wide range of interdisciplinary researchers working at AGE to improve outcomes for older people globally.