Professor Liz SampsonProfessor of Liaison PsychiatryEmail: e.sampson@qmul.ac.ukProfileResearchProfileI am inaugural Professor of Liaison Psychiatry at the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing, based between the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental health, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Barts Health NHS Trust and Whipps Cross Hospital. I qualified at Birmingham University Medical School and then worked in the Midlands and Sydney before completing general adult and old age clinical psychiatry training at St Mary’s, Queen’s Square and UCL. I work clinically with the liaison psychiatry team at the Royal London Hospital. My research and clinical work focusses on the interface between physical and mental health, particularly around cognitive disorders such as delirium and dementia and the interface between acute hospital, emergency and community care. I have led major UK NIHR/ESRC research programmes on epidemiology and symptom management (i.e. pain, swallowing, agitation) in people with delirium and dementia, using mixed methods (large data, clinical cohorts, trials, meta-analysis implementation and policy). Leadership roles include vice-chair of the UK Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry and the executive board of the European Delirium Association.ResearchResearch Interests:Dementia, delirium, acute hospital care, specific symptom management for people with cognitive disorders (pain, agitation, swallowing), interfaces between community, emergency and acute hospital care.Examples of research funding: