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Brian Lawlor, MD, FRCPI, FRCPsych, MRIA
Founding Director, Trinity College Dublin
Every citizen around the world, and that includes people living with dementia, has the potential to achieve brain health
Current Work
Brian Lawlor is a professor of old age psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, and a Founding Director of GBHI at Trinity. He is a geriatric psychiatrist with an interest in dementia, late-life depression, loneliness and brain health. Brian has worked for over 30 years on developing services and delivering care to people with dementia. His research interests have ranged from early detection and prevention to evaluating new treatments for dementia. His current work is taking a life course preventive and brain health approach, as he is convinced that we must move more 'upstream', if we are to effectively tackle the 'wicked' problem of dementia.
Personal Hero
Seamus Heaney
Words of Strength
Care and caring matters
Vision
To decrease the scale and impact of dementia worldwide, Brian believes that we need to take a life course brain health approach that (i) raises awareness of the health-promoting value of brain health, (ii) addresses risk factors in vulnerable and disadvantaged populations and (iii) develops effective policies and interventions to delay the onset and slow progression in those at risk of developing dementia, and living with dementia.
Strategy
Brian is working collaboratively with different stakeholders, agencies, people with lived experience and research groups to help reframe dementia from the perspective of life course brain health. Everyone around the world, and that includes people living with dementia, has the potential to achieve brain health, by reducing risks to their brain, protecting their brain and continuing to engage in activities that increase brain resilience.
Motivation
By developing policies and interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of people with dementia and of their care partners, we can help the person to live well with dementia and support their ongoing care in the community.
Brian believes passionately in the potential of the global community of Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health to deliver these goals and is committed to championing their efforts across the program.
Education & Experience
Brian graduated from University College Dublin Medical School and received his internal medicine training in Dublin. He then completed a psychiatry residency at University of Florida, Gainesville and a fellowship in geriatric psychopharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health at Bethesda Maryland. After completing his fellowship, he was appointed Chief of Psychogeriatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York after which he returned to Ireland as a Consultant Psychiatrist at St. James's Hospital and Trinity College Dublin.
Awards & Honors
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Voyage Around My Brain: Brian Lawlor and Mary Whelan
Hope after Dementia Diagnosis
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