Dr Lucy Stirland (MBChB PhD MRCPsych)
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Division of Psychiatry
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre
Contact details
Background
Dr Stirland is a psychiatrist and epidemiological researcher. In August 2022, she completed her specialty training in Old Age Psychiatry and finished her Clinical Lectureship funded by NHS Education for Scotland and the Chief Scientist Office. In 2020, she completed a PhD in the epidemiology of multimorbidity and polypharmacy with mental and brain health. Her clinical experience includes a year's training (endorsement) in liaison psychiatry.
From 2022-2023 she completed a Certificate in Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), University of California San Francisco. She remains an active participant in the GBHI network through her role as a Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health.
She returned to Edinburgh in October 2023 to take up a joint NHS/University post as a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist and researcher.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
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.
Past 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"
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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Identifying dementia using medical data linkage in a longitudinal cohort study: Lothian Birth Cohort 1936
In:
BMC Psychiatry, vol. 23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04797-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Socioeconomic status as a risk factor for Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome in a community-dwelling population: a longitudinal observational study
In:
European Journal of Neurology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.15731
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Frailty trajectories and associated factors in the years prior to death: evidence from 14 countries in the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe
In:
BMC Geriatrics, vol. 23, pp. 49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-03736-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Prevalence and predictors of Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome in a community‐dwelling older Scottish population: A longitudinal observational study
(10 pages)
In:
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5824
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
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)