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)
Contact
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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.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
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
Momentum Award - The use of home sensors in the early diagnosis and monitoring of Dementia (CUBOId)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2017 to 31/03/2020
Using genetic data to identify early determinants and causal environmental risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
There are 24 million people living with Alzheimer’s disease in the world and this number is expected to double in the next 20 years. Although there have been great advances…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
12/05/2016 to 01/10/2019
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
New partnership with the Global South: building health research capacity between the Universities of Bristol and Cape Town
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Bristol has a track record of collaboration with health research partners at the University of Cape Town. There is an immediate and strategic opportunity to build long-term research capacity and…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
09/02/2018 to 31/07/2018
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
13/04/2021Olfactory Testing in Parkinson Disease and REM Behavior Disorder
Neurology
The Association Between Frailty and Parkinson’s Disease in the ReSPOnD trial
Associations between Deprivation, Geographic Location, and Access to Pediatric Kidney Care in the United Kingdom
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Using datasets to ascertain the Generalisability of clinical cohorts
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
Social deprivation predicts adverse health outcomes after hospital admission with hip fracture in England
Osteoporosis International
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