Professor Sube Banerjee
Sube is an old age psychiatrist and an applied health researcher. He trained in medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and in psychiatry at Guy’s and the Maudsley hospitals and the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He has an MBA from the London Business School. His research focusses on improving quality of life and quality of care for those with dementia and the evaluation of new treatments and services. He also works nationally and internationally on strategy and policy development to improve care for people with dementia and older adults with complex needs.
He served as the Department of Health’s senior professional advisor on dementia leading the development of the National Dementia Strategy for England. Subsequently he worked with the World Health Organisation promoting dementia as a global priority in its Global Action Plan. He built and led effective modern services for older people’s mental health and dementia in London and has held, local, regional, and national clinical leadership roles. Clinically he practices as an old age psychiatrist leading a national memory service for people living with HIV.
Prior to joining the university of Nottingham in 2023 Sube was for four years, the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health at the University of Plymouth, leading its six health schools. Before that he was Associate Dean for Strategy and Deputy Dean at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Professor of Mental Health and Ageing at King’s College London. He has been awarded national and international awards for policy and research in dementia. Sube is a Trustee of Alzheimer’s Society, a Non-Executive Director of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, and an elected member of the Executive of the Medical Schools Council.