Professor John O'Brien

John T O’Brien is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and as an Honorary NHS Consultant he works in the Cambridge Memory Clinic. He is also a National Institute for Health Research Emeritus Senior Investigator, a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the NIHR National Specialty Lead for Dementia. His research interests include the use of neuroimaging as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in dementia and its clinical application and clinical trials. He has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers on these topics and has been a member of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP), European Federation of Neurological Sciences (EFNS) and Europeans Stroke Association (ESA) Dementia Guideline groups.