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).
Contact: Christopher.Fox@exeter.ac.uk