Professor Chris Fox

About me:

Chris Fox is an expert in mental health and dementia research. He spent 6 years training in psychiatry and researching trauma/personality assessments and treatment and psychometric assessment development with the Ministry of Defence. Then he went into the NHS and trained in Oxford undertaking an MD on anger characterisation in elderly mentally ill patients at UCL. He then worked in Kent running a memory service, holding a position at KIMHS University of Kent and was the first clinical director at Kent and Medway NIHR Comprehensive Research Network. In 2010 he was appointed as the first Clinical Academic Psychiatrist at Norwich Medical School and Eastern region dementia DeNDRoN lead and he ended up head of department of clinical academic medicine until 2021.

 
Chris has undertaken 4 highly cited Cochrane reviews in dementia, set up and developed clinical trials in dementia as a chief investigator and regional lead.

Chris has a long term UK/US collaboration with Indiana Medical School. He jointly co-developed work on the harms of screening, medication trials in dementia, collaborative care in dementia and the most highly cited anticholinergic burden scale. He worked as an NHS consultant for 9 years and developed an applied research strategy.

Chris has led national programmes in hospital care research in dementia (PERFECTED/ASCRIBED) and has been a co-investigator on several large scale programmes of research in dementia over the last decade on technology (ATILLA), medication (MADE/SADD/Symbadd) and psychological interventions (PATHFINDER).

Chris currently leads 5 national NIHR programmes in sleep, dementia and multi-morbidity (TIMES), carers (CARECOACH), recovery colleges (DISCOVERY), social prescribing (SPLENDID) and AI diet risk modelling to prevent multimorbidity (INFLAIM).

• DiSCOVERY realist review on PROSPERO : https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=293687

• New project to offer hope after a diagnosis of dementia | ARC East of England (nihr.ac.uk)

His key research themes are:

• Data and multi-morbidity including applied artificial intelligence
• Technology and healthcare
• Novel medication CTIMPS relevant to dementia
• Brain health - multi-morbidity

Chris is currently leading with 4 health care technology companies on multi-million pound research programmes in software/AI/ technical devices to improve delivery and assessment of health care.

Chris is co-medical director of NIHR Health Technology research centre south west and national industry engagement lead for the NIHR Health technology coordinating centre

Interests:

Professor Chris Fox has an interest in developing and evaluating interventions at scale in multi-morbidity and dementia using technology and novel data to support discovery and innovation.

Key flagship projects in intervention developments and data:

NIHR TIMES

MRC GEMINI (Led by Professor Frayling)

NIHR CARECOACH

NIHR SPLENDID

NIHR INFLAIM https://www.inflaim.com/the-team/

Biomedical research:

He has a track record in inflammation and its application in dementia. He leads the Alzheimers research UK ASCRIBED programme https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082652/7/Zetterberg_Study%20protocol.%20ASCRIBED_VoR.pdf

ACB - pocast on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5RK4x5SoEfO2dRUzQOeqp9

Qualifications:

• MB BS
• Bsc
• Mmedsci
• MD
• MRCPsych
• Cert AV Med

Career:

Medical training 1985-1991

General medical 1991-1992

General practice Berlin Germany 1992-1993

Higher specialist training 1993-2001

Consultant psychiatrist/ Senior lecturer University of Kent/ Kent and medway NHS and social care partnership trust 2001-2010

Senior Lecturer->Professor of clinical psychiatry University of East Anglia 2010-2021

Honorary consultant psychiatrist Norfolk and suffolk nhs foundation trust 2010-

Professor of clinical psychiatry university of exeter 2021-

Linked in profile for Chris (Christopher) Fox: linkedin.com/in.chris-fox-b4ba432bb