Professor Yoav Ben-Shlomo
M.B.,B.S., M.Sc.(Lond.), PhD, M.R.C.P.
Current positions
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I have a research interest in neurodegenerative disorders including ageing (as part of the Halcyon collaboration), life course infuences on chronic diseases, neuroepidemiology, chronic kidney disease and equity of access to health care.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Quality of intimate relationship and later cardiovascular disease risk factors in a longitudinal study in the UK
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The aim of this study is to assess the association between changes in Quality of intimate relationship and later cardiovascular disease risk factors in a longitudinal study in the UK.…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/11/2023
Determinants of quality of relationship between G0 partners, ALSPAC
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This project aims to explore the associations between a range of demographic, socioeconomic, psychological, and behavioural factors, and changes in quality of relationship (RQ) over time in the parental generation…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/08/2022
Quality of relationships in mothers and their partners in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This project aims to describe the ALSPAC data on quality of relationship (RQ) using the intimate bond measure (IBM) in G0 couples over follow-up period.Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2022 to 11/10/2023
Undergraduate education in geriatric medicine
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This is a programme of research to determine the effectiveness of different educational strategies on the attitudes of medical students to older people, and the impact on their future career…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/07/2020 to 31/05/2023
Building a Sub-Saharan African MuSculOskeletal Network; SAMSON
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The burden of musculoskeletal disease is growing across Africa, with implications throughout the lifecourse. Currently research and healthcare capacity to address musculoskeletal disease is limited across the region. Ultimately SAMSON…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
09/02/2018 to 31/07/2018
Thesis supervisions
Improving the assessment and management of urinary symptoms in people with Parkinson’s disease
Supervisors
Capturing complexity, comorbidity and frailty in people with parkinsonism and understanding their impact
Supervisors
An Investigation into the Link Between Sleep and Alzheimer’s Disease Using a Multi-Method Approach
Supervisors
Approaches to diagnosing dementia syndrome in general practice
Supervisors
Why do children with chronic kidney disease present late to specialist services?
Supervisors
Prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases
Supervisors
Social and regional inequalities in the incidence of and outcomes after hip fracture in England
Supervisors
Investigating kidney disease clinical epidemiology using routinely collected administrative data and proteomics
Supervisors
Understanding generalisability, and issues of recruitment in cohort studies
Supervisors
Causal pathways from cognitive ability to Alzheimer's disease
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
06/02/2024A genetic association study of circulating coagulation Factor VIII and von Willebrand Factor levels
Blood
A guide to the decomposition of causal effects into mediation, interaction and direct effects: a case study on aerobic exercise and Parkinson’s
Neurology
Assessing the validity of a Parkinson's care evaluation
European Journal of Epidemiology
Life course plasma metabolomic signatures of genetic liability to Alzheimer’s disease
Scientific Reports
Motor complications in Parkinson’s disease:
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
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