Dr Lucy Stirland (MBChB PhD MRCPsych)
Postdoctoral Clinical Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Division of Psychiatry
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre
Contact details
- Email: l.stirland@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Google Scholar Profile
- @Stirlandia
Address
- Street
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Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Morningside Terrace - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH10 5HF
Background
Dr Stirland is a psychiatrist and epidemiological researcher. She currently works part time in the NHS, finishing her specialty training in old age psychiatry, and part time in the University of Edinburgh. Her research is funded by a Clinical Lectureship from NHS Education for Scotland and the Chief Scientist Office. Before this post, she took time out of clinical training to complete a PhD. Her clinical experience includes a year's training in liaison psychiatry to complement her experience working with older adults.
Research summary
Dr Stirland's research uses data to understand links between having multiple physical conditions or taking multiple medicines (multimorbidity and polypharmacy) with mental illnesses and dementia.
Current project grants
NES/CSO Postdoctoral Clinical Lectureship (2020-2022)
Project title: "Temporal dynamics of multimorbidity and medication use with mental illness and dementia: an investigation in NHS Scotland routinely collected data and the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936"
Past project grants
MRF/MRC PsySTAR (Psychiatry: Scottish Training in Academic Research) Clinical Research Fellowship (2015-2019)
Thesis title: "Epidemiology of multimorbidity and polypharmacy in ageing: a complementary analysis of mental and brain health in three datasets" (PhD awarded June 2020)
Supervisors: Dr Graciela Muniz Terrera, Dr Tom Russ, Prof Craig Ritchie
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Comparisons of disease cluster patterns, prevalence and health factors in the USA, Canada, England and Ireland
In:
BMC Public Health, vol. 21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11706-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Cognitive Dispersion Predicts Grip Strength Trajectories in Men but not Women in a Sample of the Oldest Old Without Dementia
In:
Innovation in Aging, vol. 5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab025
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Understanding the risk of incidental findings: A qualitative study of people with cognitive symptoms
In:
Journal of the Neurological Sciences, vol. 419, pp. 117203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2020.117203
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Epidemiology of multimorbidity and polypharmacy in ageing: a complementary analysis of mental and brain health in three datasets
Research output: › Doctoral Thesis (Published) -
Associations between midlife chronic conditions and medication use with anxiety and depression: A cross-sectional analysis of the PREVENT Dementia study
In:
Journal of comorbidity, vol. 10, pp. 2235042X2092044
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2235042X20920443
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Measuring multimorbidity beyond counting diseases: systematic review of community and population studies and guide to index choice
In:
British Medical Journal (BMJ), pp. m160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m160
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Measuring multimorbidity beyond counting diseases: systematic review of community and population studies and guide to index choice.
In:
BMJ (Clinical Research ed.)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m160
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Incidental Findings Identified on Head MRI for Investigation of Cognitive Impairment: A Retrospective Review
(8 pages)
In:
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, pp. 1-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000503956
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)