Louise Robinson

Louise Robinson is a GP and Professor of Primary Care and Ageing at the Institutes of Ageing and Health/Health and Society, Newcastle University. She has been an academic General Practitioner for 17 years and earned her MD from Newcastle University in 1999. Her research programme is centred on Primary Care and Ageing, with a special interest in the care of people with dementia in primary care.

Louise is currently the Royal College of General Practitioners National Clinical Champion for Ageing and Older People. She also leads the Primary Care Clinical Studies Group of the Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN). Louise is part of the project team for the Newcastle, Medical Research Council funded, 85 plus study and part of the Newcastle group of the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS).

She has recently co-authored chapters on the mental health of older people in primary care and end of life care for older people for the Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry and the Oxford Textbook of Practical Geriatrics.

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