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 John O'Brien (Old Age Psychiatry) 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
Research Network Manager North East DeNDRoN
St Nicholas Hospital
Jubilee Road
Gosforth
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE3 3XT Tel: 0191 223 2743 Laura Frisby
Administrator
North East DeNDRoN
Tel: 0191 223 2740 Professor John O'Brien
Wolfson Research Centre
Newcastle
General Hospital
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NE4 6BE
Tel: 0191 256 3323 2nd North East DeNDRoN Conference, 1st December 2008