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 2023, 'A clinical frailty scale obtained from MDT discussion performs poorly in assessing frailty in haemodialysis recipients', BMC Nephrology, vol. 24, no. 1, 80. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-023-03126-0

Anderson, BM, Qasim, M, Correa, G, Evison, F, Gallier, S, Ferro, CJ, Jackson, TA & Sharif, A 2023, 'Depression is associated with frailty and lower quality of life in haemodialysis recipients, but not with mortality or hospitalization', Clinical Kidney Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 342-354. https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfac241

Geriatric Medicine Core Dataset Extended Working Group, Welch, C, Wilson, D, Sayer, AA, Witham, MD & Jackson, TA 2023, 'Development of a UK core dataset for geriatric medicine research: a position statement and results from a Delphi consensus process', BMC Geriatrics, vol. 23, no. 1, 168. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-03805-5

Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative 2023, 'Increasing frailty is associated with higher prevalence and reduced recognition of delirium in older hospitalised inpatients: results of a multi-centre study', European Geriatric Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-022-00737-y

Anderson, BM, Wilson, DV, Qasim, M, Correa, G, Evison, F, Gallier, S, Ferro, CJ, Jackson, TA & Sharif, A 2023, 'Ultrasound quadriceps muscle thickness is variably associated with frailty in haemodialysis recipients', BMC Nephrology, vol. 24, no. 1, 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-022-03043-8

Global COVID-19 Neuro Research Coalition 2022, 'Consensus clinical guidance for diagnosis and management of adult COVID-19 encephalopathy patients', Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.22010002

Anderson, BM, Qasim, M, Correa, G, Evison, F, Gallier, S, Ferro, CJ, Jackson, TA & Sharif, A 2022, 'Correlations, agreement and utility of frailty instruments in prevalent haemodialysis patients: baseline cohort data from the FITNESS study', Clinical Kidney Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, sfab137, pp. 145-152. https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfab137

LACE study group 2022, 'Effect of perindopril or leucine on physical performance in older people with sarcopenia: the LACE randomized controlled trial', Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 858-871. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12934

RAGA Study Investigators, Li, T, Li, J, Yuan, L, Wu, J, Jiang, C, Daniels, J, Mehta, RL, Wang, M, Yeung, J, Jackson, T, Melody, T, Jin, S, Yao, Y, Wu, J, Chen, J, Smith, FG & Lian, Q 2022, 'Effect of regional vs general anesthesia on incidence of postoperative delirium in older patients undergoing hip fracture surgery: the RAGA randomized trial', JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 327, no. 1, pp. 50-58. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.22647

Welch, C, Greig, C, Majid, Z, Masud, T, Moorey, H, Pinkney, T & Jackson, T 2022, 'Induced frailty and acute sarcopenia are overlapping consequences of hospitalisation in older adults', Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 103-116. https://doi.org/10.22540/JFSF-07-103

Hamlyn, J, Lowry, C, Jackson, TA & Welch, C 2022, 'Outcomes in adults living with frailty receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Resuscitation Plus, vol. 11, 100266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resplu.2022.100266

Anderson, BM, Qasim, M, Correa, G, Evison, F, Gallier, S, Ferro, CJ, Jackson, TA & Sharif, A 2022, 'Self-reported health change in haemodialysis recipients modulates the effect of frailty upon mortality and hospital admissions: outcomes from a large prospective UK cohort', Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfac287

Review article

Lee, H, Wilson, D, Bunting, KV, Kotecha, D & Jackson, T 2023, 'Repurposing digoxin for geroprotection in patients with frailty and multimorbidity', Ageing Research Reviews, vol. 86, 101860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2023.101860

Taylor, JA, Greenhaff, PL, Bartlett, DB, Jackson, TA, Duggal, NA & Lord, JM 2022, 'A Multisystem Physiological Perspective of Human Frailty and Its Modulation by Physical Activity', Physiological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00037.2021

White, L & Jackson, T 2022, 'Delirium and COVID-19: a narrative review of emerging evidence', Anaesthesia, vol. 77, no. S1, pp. 49-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.15627

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