Professor John-Paul Taylor

• Professor of Translational Dementia Research, Newcastle University
• Email: john-paul.taylor@ncl.ac.uk
• Twitter: @@John_PaulTaylor

Dr John-Paul Taylor MBBS(hons) MRCPsych PhD is an academic old age psychiatrist and Honorary Consultant at Newcastle University and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

As Chief Investigator he is responsible for the overall oversight and key aspects of design and delivery of the COBALT trial.

Dr Taylor has received academic recognition for his work including being awarded a Foulkes Foundation Fellowship, the Sir James Spence Prize for best research, the Senta Travel Prize and Fellowship, the ICGP International Junior Investigator Award as well as being the recipient of the International Psychogeriatric Association Biennial Junior Research Award 1st Place. More recently he has been appointed visiting professorships at the G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy and at Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London and is ranked in the top five experts internationally in Lewy body disease internationally (expertscape.com)

He has published over 200 peer reviewed articles, numerous book chapters and has edited two books in the field of dementia and old age psychiatry. You can find a list of Professor Taylor’s publications here: ‪John Paul Taylor - ‪Google Scholar

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