Prof. Liz Sampson

Liz Sampson is an inaugural chair in the QMUL/Barts Health Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA), leading on mental health, dementia and delirium. She works closely with the Centre for Psychiatry in the Wolfson Institute for population Health at QMUL. Her research team focusses on dementia and delirium in acute hospital inpatients and symptom management in advanced dementia (epidemiology and health services research) and liaison psychiatry.  

The Academic Centre for healthy Ageing is dedicated to improving care and support for older people in north-east London through research, education, and training. ACHA is a collaborative project between Barts Health NHS Trust, Queen Mary University of London and Barts Charity. Based within Whipps Cross Hospital, with strong local community links, ACHA is closely connected to the Integrated Delivery Framework (IDF), a system-wide approach to transforming health and care services across the whole Whipps Cross catchment 

She has a strong research track record and has been awarded over £15 million in grant funding from the NIHR, ESRC and charities such as Marie Curie and the Alzheimer’s Society.  

Liz  is a liaison psychiatrist at the Royal London Hospital. She studied medicine at the University of Birmingham and gained her MD from the UCL Institute of Neurology. Liz is president of the European Delirium Association and was previously research lead and deputy chair for the Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry Executive Committee.