Clive Ballard
Clive Ballard received his medical degree at the University of Leicester (UK). He subsequently specialised in psychiatry of older adults and joined the Lewy Body Dementia Research Group. He was later appointed Professor of Age Related Disease and Director of the Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at King’s College London and is now the Executive Dean and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter Medical School (UK). His key research interests include neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia, clinical trials of drug and non-drug dementia therapies, genome wide association studies, non-Alzheimer dementias, and online intervention studies. He also leads drug discovery initiatives and clinical trials associated with Alzheimer’s disease and non-Alzheimer’s dementias.