Dr Thomas Jackson BSc MBBS MRCP(Geriatrics) PhD

Thomas Jackson

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

Contact details

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

McGee, KC, Sullivan, J, Hazeldine, J, Schmunk, LJ, Martin-Herranz, DE, Jackson, T & Lord, JM 2024, 'A combination nutritional supplement reduces DNA methylation age only in older adults with a raised epigenetic age', GeroScience. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-024-01138-8

Shrestha, A, Bashir, T, Achison, M, Adamson, S, Akpan, A, Aspray, T, Avenell, A, Band, MM, Burton, LA, Cvoro, V, Donnan, PT, Duncan, GW, George, J, Gordon, AL, Gregson, CL, Hapca, A, Hume, C, Jackson, TA, Kerr, S, Kilgour, A, Masud, T, McKenzie, A, McKenzie, E, Patel, H, Pilvinyte, K, Roberts, HC, Sayer, AA, Rossios, C, Smith, KT, Soiza, RL, Steves, CJ, Struthers, AD, Tiwari, D, Whitney, J, Witham, MD, Kemp, PR & De Rui, M (ed.) 2024, 'Association of bradykinin receptor 2 (BDKRB2) variants with physical performance and muscle mass: Findings from the LACE sarcopenia trial', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 8, e0307268. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307268

Welch, C, Bravo, L, Gkoutos, G, Greig, C, Lewis, D, Lord, J, Majid, Z, Masud, T, McGee, K, Moorey, H, Pinkney, T, Stanley, B & Jackson, T 2024, 'Establishing Predictors of Acute Sarcopenia: A Proof-Of-Concept Study Utilising Network Analysis', Aging and Disease. https://doi.org/10.14336/AD.2024.0167

Skaar, E, Rostoft, S, Cruz-Jentoft, A, Jackson, T, Bleie, Ø, Packer, E, Øksnes, A & Schaufel, MA 2024, '‘If you’ve lost your personality, there’s no point in changing the valve’—a qualitative study of older adults’ attitudes towards treatment of aortic stenosis with comorbid dementia', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 11, e086674. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086674

Greene, L, Barber, R, Bingham, A, Connors, J, Conroy, S, Elkhafer, K, Fox, C, Goodwin, V, Gordon, A, Hall, AJ, Harwood, RH, Hulme, C, Jackson, T, Litherland, R, Morgan-Trimmer, S, Pankiewicz, S, Parry, SW, Sharma, A, Ukoumunne, O, Whale, B & Allan, L 2024, 'Maintaining independence in individuals with dementia at home after a fall: a protocol for the UK pilot cluster randomised controlled trial MAINTAIN', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 2, e083494. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083494

Courtie, E, Taylor, M, Danks, D, Acharjee, A, Jackson, T, Logan, A, Veenith, T & Blanch, RJ 2024, 'Oculomic stratification of COVID-19 patients’ intensive therapy unit admission status and mortality by retinal morphological findings', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, 21312. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68543-z

Gunathilaka, N, Gooden, T, Cooper, J, Flanagan, S, Marshall, T, Haroon, S, D'Elia, A, Crowe, F, Jackson, T, Nirantharakumar, K & Greenfield, S 2024, 'Perceptions on artificial intelligence-based decision making for coexisting multiple long-term health conditions: A protocol for a qualitative study with patients and healthcare professionals', BMJ open, vol. 14, e077156. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077156

COVID-CNS Consortium & Veenith, T 2024, 'Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 cognitive deficits at one year are global and associated with elevated brain injury markers and grey matter volume reduction', Nature Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03309-8

Rossios, C, Bashir, T, Achison, M, Adamson, S, Akpan, A, Aspray, T, Avenell, A, Band, MM, Burton, LA, Cvoro, V, Donnan, PT, Duncan, GW, George, J, Gordon, AL, Gregson, CL, Hapca, A, Hume, C, Jackson, TA, Kerr, S, Kilgour, A, Masud, T, McKenzie, A, McKenzie, E, Patel, H, Pilvinyte, K, Roberts, HC, Sayer, AA, Smith, KT, Soiza, RL, Steves, CJ, Struthers, AD, Tiwari, D, Whitney, J, Witham, MD & Kemp, PR 2023, 'ACE I/D genotype associates with strength in sarcopenic men but not with response to ACE inhibitor therapy in older adults with sarcopenia: Results from the LACE trial', PLOS One, vol. 18, no. 10, e0292402. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292402

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

Bashir, T, Achison, M, Adamson, S, Akpan, A, Aspray, T, Avenell, A, Band, MM, Burton, LA, Cvoro, V, Donnan, PT, Duncan, GW, George, J, Gordon, AL, Gregson, CL, Hapca, A, Hume, C, Jackson, TA, Kerr, S, Kilgour, A, Masud, T, McKenzie, A, McKenzie, E, Patel, H, Pilvinyte, K, Roberts, HC, Rossios, C, Sayer, AA, Smith, KT, Soiza, RL, Steves, CJ, Struthers, AD, Tiwari, D, Whitney, J, Witham, MD & Kemp, PR 2023, 'Activin type I receptor polymorphisms and body composition in older individuals with sarcopenia—Analyses from the LACE randomised controlled trial', PLoS ONE, vol. 18, no. 11, e0294330. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294330

Bowman, EML, Brummel, NE, Caplan, GA, Cunningham, C, Evered, LA, Fiest, KM, Girard, TD, Jackson, TA, LaHue, SC, Lindroth, HL, Maclullich, AMJ, McAuley, DF, Oh, ES, Oldham, MA, Page, VJ, Pandharipande, PP, Potter, KM, Sinha, P, Slooter, AJC, Sweeney, AM, Tieges, Z, Van Dellen, E, Wilcox, ME, Zetterberg, H & Cunningham, EL 2023, 'Advancing specificity in delirium: The delirium subtyping initiative', Alzheimer's & Dementia. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13419

Allan, L, O’connell, A, Raghuraman, S, Bingham, A, Laverick, A, Chandler, K, Connors, J, Jones, B, Um, J, Morgan-Trimmer, S, Harwood, R, Goodwin, VA, Ukoumunne, OC, Hawton, A, Anderson, R, Jackson, T, Maclullich, AMJ, Richardson, S, Davis, D, Collier, L, Strain, WD, Litherland, R, Glasby, J & Clare, L 2023, 'A rehabilitation intervention to improve recovery after an episode of delirium in adults over 65 years (RecoverED): study protocol for a multi-centre, single-arm feasibility study', Pilot and Feasibility Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 162. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01387-y

Comment/debate

ISARIC4C Investigators, COVID-CNS Consortium, Michael, BD, Dunai, C, Needham, EJ, Tharmaratnam, K, Williams, R, Huang, Y, Boardman, SA, Clark, JJ, Sharma, P, Subramaniam, K, Wood, GK, Collie, C, Digby, R, Ren, A, Norton, E, Leibowitz, M, Ebrahimi, S, Fower, A, Fox, H, Tato, E, Ellul, MA, Sunderland, G, Held, M, Hetherington, C, Egbe, FN, Palmos, A, Stirrups, K, Grundmann, A, Chiollaz, AC, Sanchez, JC, Stewart, JP, Griffiths, M, Solomon, T, Breen, G, Coles, AJ, Kingston, N, Bradley, JR, Chinnery, PF, Cavanagh, J, Irani, SR, Vincent, A, Baillie, JK, Openshaw, PJ, Semple, MG, Taams, LS & Menon, DK 2024, 'Author Correction: Para-infectious brain injury in COVID-19 persists at follow-up despite attenuated cytokine and autoantibody responses', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 2918. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47320-6

Letter

PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group, ISARIC investigators, Jackson, T, Broome, M, McArdle, P, Moss, P, Thickett, D, Upthegrove, R, Wraith, D, Aldera, EL, Green, C & McGee, K 2024, 'Large-scale phenotyping of patients with long COVID post-hospitalization reveals mechanistic subtypes of disease', Nature Immunology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 607-621. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-024-01778-0

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