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Jugdeep Dhesi

Professor Jugdeep Dhesi

Professor of Geriatric Medicine

Biography

Jugdeep is a consultant geriatrician working in the innovative and award-winning POPS (Perioperative medicine for Older People undergoing Surgery) service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She is Honorary Professor at King’s College London and Associate Professor at University College London, with research interests including preoperative assessment and optimisation, health services research focusing on perioperative pathways and postoperative delirium. She has wide education and training portfolio, having established the first Allied Health Professional, Foundation and Specialist Registrar training programmes in perioperative medicine, co-authored e-learning modules, MSc modules and multiple textbook chapters. Her national roles include Deputy Director for Centre for Perioperative Care, President of the British Geriatrics Society and involvement in a variety of steering, advisory and guideline groups (NELA, RCoA, BGS and NICE). Jugdeep is also a member of the Ageing Research at King's (ARK) Committee.

Research

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POPS-SUp

Perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery scale up (POPS-SUp)

Project status: Starting

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Ageing Research at King's (ARK)

Cross faculty consortium addressing ageing and healthy longevity.

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Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing

The centre supports the development of biomarkers in neurocognitive disorders, and novel strategies to support the early diagnosis of AD and related disorders.

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NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Health

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) HealthTech Research Centre, designed to accelerate the advancement of cutting-edge technology to better understand brain health and ageing and help people live healthier lives for longer.

News

National report calls for urgent overhaul of palliative care across the UK

King’s academics have been involved in a major new report calling for a national strategy to address uneven end-of-life care across the UK.

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Research

older adults 1
POPS-SUp

Perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery scale up (POPS-SUp)

Project status: Starting

London landscape
Ageing Research at King's (ARK)

Cross faculty consortium addressing ageing and healthy longevity.

brain-training-1
Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing

The centre supports the development of biomarkers in neurocognitive disorders, and novel strategies to support the early diagnosis of AD and related disorders.

PONS Centre banner brain scan
NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Health

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) HealthTech Research Centre, designed to accelerate the advancement of cutting-edge technology to better understand brain health and ageing and help people live healthier lives for longer.

News

National report calls for urgent overhaul of palliative care across the UK

King’s academics have been involved in a major new report calling for a national strategy to address uneven end-of-life care across the UK.

A man with a walking stick smiling