Biography
Rob Stewart is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics, and is Theme Deputy Lead of Informatics in the Maudsley NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. He has been Academic Lead for the Maudsley’s Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) platform since its development in 2007-8. CRIS is an internationally unique data resource comprising de-identified full electronic mental health records from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (over 500,000 patients) with extensive enhancement through multiple data linkages and natural language processing (‘text-mining’) algorithms. CRIS has been used extensively for research to improve the understanding of mental health conditions and mental healthcare services, and has supported over 250 peer-reviewed publications.
Rob Stewart joined the Institute of Psychiatry as a junior researcher in 1996 and has worked on the epidemiology of dementia and other late-life mental disorders and on a range of International Mental Health initiatives, as well as his more recent activity in Clinical Informatics. He is a practising Consultant in Liaison Old Age Psychiatry.
Research Interests
- Clinical informatics and mental healthcare data science
- Mental health in older adults
- Dementia epidemiology
- Physical-mental health interface
Rob Stewart’s work on CRIS has focused particularly on the physical health inequalities faced by people with mental disorders, as well as longstanding interests in the physical health impact of dementia and its implications for safer prescribing. He directs several programmes of work to improve the quantity and quality of data from routine electronic health records through natural language processing.
Research Groups
Maudsley NIHR Biomedical Research Centre
Expertise and Public Engagement
Rob Stewart is Co-Director of DATAMIND, the MRC-funded HDRUK hub for mental health data science.
Rob Stewart has served as Academic Secretary for the Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, and as Chair of the European Psychiatric Association Section of Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry.
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Wang, Y-H., Aggarwal, A., Stewart, R. & Davies, E., 1 Jan 2023, In: Psycho-Oncology. Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Friedrich, M-E., Perera, G., Leutgeb, L., Haardt, D., Frey, R., Stewart, R. & Mueller, C., 30 Nov 2022, In: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Rogowska, M., Thornton, M., Creese, B., Velayudhan, L., Aarsland, D., Ballard, C., Tsamakis, K., Stewart, R. & Mueller, C., 31 Dec 2014, In: Drugs and Aging. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Vyas, N., Brunckhorst, O., Fox, L., Van Hemelrijck, M., Muir, G., Stewart, R., Dasgupta, P. & Ahmed, K., 16 Dec 2022, In: PLoS One. 17, 12, 17 p., e0279250. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279250
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Wickersham, A., Carter, B., Jewell, A., Ford, T., Stewart, R. & Downs, J., 9 Dec 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ashdown-Franks, G., Sabiston, C. M., Stubbs, B., Atkinson, M. & Stewart, R., 31 Oct 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Mental Health and Physical Activity. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chen, S., Price, A., Cardinal, R., Moylett, S., Kershenbaum, A. D., FitzGerald, J., Mueller, C., Stewart, R. & O'Brien, J. T., 6 Dec 2022, In: PLoS Medicine. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004124
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Kim, J-M., Kim, J-W., Kang, H-J., Kim, S-W., Kim, J-T., Park, M-S., Kim, J-C., Ahn, Y., Jeong, M. H. & Stewart, R., 16 Oct 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of affective disorders. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ronaldson, A., Arias de la Torre, J., Ashworth, M., Hansell, A., Hotopf, M., Mudway, I. S., Stewart, R., Dregan, A. & Bakolis, I., 2 Dec 2022, In: Frontiers in Public Health. 10, 1035415. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1035415
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Kadra-Scalzo, G., Kornblum, D., Stewart, R. & Howard, L., 25 Nov 2022, In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02393-w