Dr Thomas Jackson BSc MBBS MRCP(Geriatrics) PhD

Thomas Jackson

Institute of Inflammation and Ageing
Clinician Scientist in Geriatric Medicine
Visiting Consultant in Geriatric Medicine

Contact details

Telephone
+44(0) 121 371 3264
Email
t.jackson@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@delirious_dr
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Address
University of Birmingham Research Laboratory. Write-up 1
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Mindelsohn Way
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2WB

Dr Jackson is a geriatrician and clinician scientist.  He investigates cognitive disorders in general hospital settings (delirium and dementia) and how these affect both long term cognitive outcomes and the link with the ageing immune system.  He works in the Immunity and Ageing (Immunesenescence) research group within the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing.

Qualifications

Clinician Scientist in Geriatric Medicine

  • PhD 2016
  • MRCP Geriatrics 2012
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods in Cognitive Aging, University of Edinburgh 2011
  • Membership of the Royal College of Physicians London (MRCP) 2006
  • MBBS, University of London 2003
  • BSc, University of London 2000

Biography

Dr Jackson qualified in 2003 in London and moved to Birmingham to complete specialist training in geriatric medicine and general internal medicine in 2007, gaining his certificate of completion of training (CCT) in 2012. During his training he was active in the British Geriatrics Society and was chair of the BGS Training Committee from 2009 to 2011.

He was awarded a joint Age UK-Research into Ageing Fund and British Geriatric Society Clinical Fellowship in 2012 with a project identifying dementia in older patients presenting to hospital with delirium.  From this he validated informant tools to diagnose unrecognised dementia in patients with delirium as well as investigating the immune and inflammatory effects of delirium.

Other areas of research interest include acute sarcopenia and frailty and the recognition of delirium in specialist settings such as military medicine.

He is a current of The European Academy for Medicine of Ageing, an Advanced Postgraduate Course in Geriatrics.

Clinically he works as a visiting consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in ortho-geriatrics (orthopaedic liaison) and in acute general medicine.

Teaching

  • MBChB Year 4 lead for Elderly Medicine
  • MBChB Year 5 – Delirium
  • BMedSc Year 3 Statistics and analysis of longitudinal cohort data (Biology of Ageing Module)

Postgraduate supervision

Thomas is currently supervising an Academic Clinical Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine.

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Thomas Jackson directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.

Research

  • Delirium and dementia in the general hospital
  • Inflammatory changes in delirium and dementia
  • The role of the immune system in neuroinflammation

Other activities

  • Past Trustee of the British Geriatrics Society (2010-2012)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Anderson, BM, Qasim, M, Correa, G, Evison, F, Gallier, S, Ferro, CJ, Jackson, TA & Sharif, A 2021, 'Correlations, agreement and utility of frailty instruments in prevalent haemodialysis patients: baseline cohort data from the FITNESS study', Clinical Kidney Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfab137

Welch, C, Greig, C, Masud, T & Jackson, TA 2021, 'Muscle quantity and function measurements are acceptable to older adults during and post- hospitalisation: results of a questionnaire-based study', BMC Geriatrics, vol. 21, no. 1, 141. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02091-3

Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative 2021, 'Retrospective delirium ascertainment from case notes: a retrospective cohort study', BMJ open, vol. 11, no. 5, e042440. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042440

Welch, C, Greig, C, Masud, T, Wilson, D & Jackson, TA 2020, 'COVID-19 and Acute Sarcopenia', Aging and Disease, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1345-1351. https://doi.org/10.14336/AD.2020.1014

Wilson, D, Drew, W, Jasper, A, Crisford, H, Nightingale, P, Newby, P, Jackson, T, Lord, J & Sapey, E 2020, 'Frailty is associated with neutrophil dysfunction which is correctable with phosphoinositol-3-kinase inhibitors', The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, vol. 75, no. 12, pp. 2320-2325. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaa216

Majid, Z, Welch, C, Davies, J & Jackson, T 2020, 'Global frailty: the role of ethnicity, migration and socioeconomic factors', Maturitas, vol. 139, pp. 33-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.05.010

Welch, C, Majid, Z, Greig, C, Gladman, J, Masud, T & Jackson, T 2020, 'Interventions to ameliorate reductions in muscle quantity and function in hospitalised older adults: a systematic review towards acute sarcopenia treatment', Age and Ageing. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa209

Grudzinska, F, Brodlie, M, Scholefield, B, Jackson, T, Scott, A, Thickett, D & Sapey, E 2020, 'Neutrophils in community-acquired pneumonia: parallels in dysfunction at the extremes of age', Thorax, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 164-171. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-212826

Welch, C, Greig, CA, Masud, T, Pinkney, T & Jackson, TA 2020, 'Protocol for understanding acute sarcopenia: a cohort study to characterise changes in muscle quantity and physical function in older adults following hospitalisation', BMC Geriatrics, vol. 20, no. 1, 239. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01626-4

Welch, C, Greig, CA, Hassan-Smith, ZK, Pinkney, TD, Lord, JM & Jackson, TA 2019, 'A pilot observational study measuring acute sarcopenia in older colorectal surgery patients', BMC Research Notes, vol. 12, no. 1, 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4049-y

Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative, Jackson, T & Wilson, D 2019, 'Delirium is prevalent in older hospital inpatients and associated with adverse outcomes: results of a prospective multi-centre study on World Delirium Awareness Day', BMC medicine, vol. 17, no. 1, 229. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1458-7

Witham, MD, Roberts, HC, Gladman, J, Stott, DJ, Sayer, AA, Aspray, TJ, Brock, P, Clegg, A, Cox, N, Ewan, V, Frith, J, Burton, JK, Jackson, T, Lewis, EG, Lim, SE, Makin, S, Lochlainn, MN, Richardson, S, Shenkin, SD, Steves, CJ, Todd, O, Tullo, E, Walker, R & Yarnall, A 2019, 'Growing research in geriatric medicine', Age and Ageing, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 316-319. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afy220

Welch, C & Jackson, TA 2018, 'Can delirium research activity impact on routine delirium recognition? A prospective cohort study', BMJ open, vol. 8, no. 10, e023386. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023386

Anderson, B, Dutton, M, Day, E, Jackson, T, Ferro, CJ & Sharif, A 2018, 'Frailty Intervention Trial iN End-Stage patientS on haemodialysis (FITNESS): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial', Trials, vol. 19, no. 1, 457. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2842-x, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2842-x

Review article

Ermogenous, C, Green, C, Jackson, T, Ferguson, M & Lord, JM 2020, 'Treating age-related multimorbidity: the drug discovery challenge', Drug Discovery Today, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 1403-1415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2020.06.016

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