Professor Miles Witham

• Lead co-applicant Newcastle University

Miles Witham is Professor of Trials for Older People, Honorary Consultant Geriatrician at Newcastle Hospitals, and National Speciality Lead for the NIHR Clinical Research Network Ageing speciality. His research interests focus on clinical trials for older people with sarcopenia, frailty and multimorbidity, and the use of routinely-collected health and social care data in research for older people.  He studies a wide range of interventions, from exercise and nutrition through to drug interventions, and is passionate about improving opportunities for older people to take part in trials through methodological research.