North East DeNDRoN
Host Organisation: Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Lead:
Dr Bob Barber
The North East LRN covers an area
from the Scottish borders south to Yorkshire and from
the North Sea coast over to Cumbria.
It has a population of around 2.5 million people, including the cities of Newcastle,
Gateshead, Sunderland, Durham,
Hartlepool and Middlesbrough, and
is hosted by the newly formed Northumberland, Tyne and
Wear NHS Trust. The clinical lead is Bob Barber with deputy
David Burn (Neurology) and the LRN has particular research strengths in
non-Alzheimer dementia (especially Lewy body and vascular dementia) and
Parkinson's disease
Daniel Herron
Research Network Manager
North East DeNDRoN
St Nicholas Hospital
Jubilee Road
Gosforth
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE3 3XT
Tel: 0191 223 2743
Administrator
North East DeNDRoN
Tel: 0191 223 2740
Clinical Lead:
Dr Bob Barber
c/o North East DeNDRoN
Wolfson Research Centre
Newcastle General Hospital
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NE4 6BE
Dementia Research Focus, Winter 2011-12 