Dag Aarsland
Dag Aarsland, MD, professor of Old Age Psychiatry and Director of Centre for Healthy Brain Aging at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. Aarsland is a psychiatrist with long experience in leading multicentre dementia research projects including clinical trials. His main research interests are the neuropsychiatric aspects of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, in particular translational studies on cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies and nutritional aspects. He is PI of the European DLB Consortium, academic is/has been co-ordinator of three EU IMI/IHI studies (RADAR-AD, PD-MIND, and PREDICTOM), member of the European Association of Neurology Scientific panel of dementia, past chair of the AAIC-ISTAART LBD PIA, and PI of several large multicentre observational and intervention trials. He has published more than 600 papers in dementia, including clinical trials, cohort studies, and a wide range of biomarkers including imaging, CSF and EEG. He has >95,000 citations and an H-factor 143 (Google scholar) and ranks number 4 in the Expertscape list of the world’s leading experts in Lewybody disease. His total grant income since 2016 is > 20,000,000 Euro).