Martin Rossor - Biography#

Professional background

Martin Rossor is Professor Emeritus, and Principal Research Associate at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. He has been a leading figure in the field of dementia for over twenty years.

Following his training in clinical neurology at the National Hospital, Queen Square, Martin undertook primary research on the neurochemistry of degenerative dementia at the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit, Cambridge, before being appointed as Consultant Neurologist at St. Mary’s Hospital London and the National Hospital in 1986. Martin was appointed as the Chairman of the Division of Neurology in 2002, after becoming Professor of Clinical Neurology. He established a specialist cognitive disorders clinic, which acts as a tertiary referral service for young onset and rare dementias. He was appointed as the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research to help coordinate and deliver the UK Department of Health and Social Care's research response to commitments under the Dementia Challenge and the G8 Dementia Summit.

Research interests

Martin’s clinical research interests are in the degenerative dementias, particularly familial disease, and more recently in general cognitive impairment in systemic disease and multimorbidity. He established the Queen Square Dementia Research Centre and has served as the editor of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, President of the Association of British Neurologists, Director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network for Dementia and Neurodegenerative diseases (DeNDRoN), and Director of the NIHR Queen Square Dementia Biomedical Research Unit. As part of the activities of DeNDRoN he established Join Dementia Research (JDR), a national system for linking patients and public to research studies.

He has served on numerous advisory boards and currently is an associate member of the World Dementia Council, member of the 2020 Dementia Programme Board, and Chairman of the Senate for the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).

Education:

• 1968 - 1971 Jesus College, Cambridge
  
• 1971 - 1974 Kings College, Hospital Medical School

Professional Qualifications:

• MB, B.Chir, Cambridge: 1974
  
• Cambridge: 1975
  
• MD Cambridge: 1986
  
• FRCP (MRCP 1976): 1990

General Medical Council: Membership number 1736638