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Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Psychiatrist at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
Honorary Senior Lecturer - University of Manchester

Research interests

Mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, dementias

Publications

Karim SS, Ramanna G, Petit T, Doward L, Burns A. Development of the Dementia Quality of Life questionnaire (D-QOL): UK version. Aging Ment Health. 2008 Jan; 12(1):144-8.

Dogan S, Demir B, Eker E, Karim S. Knowledge and attitudes of doctorstoward the sexuality of older people in Turkey. Int Psychogeriatrics. 2008 Apr 11; 1-9.Burns A, Karim S, Morris J, Byrne J.

The conversational mini-mental state examination: Estimating cognitive impairment. Aging Ment Health. 2010 Aug;14(6):692-4.

Karim S, Minhas HM, Bhattachrya S, Sein K, Nayar B, Morris J, Nizami A,Minhas F, Burns A. The symptomatology of Alzheimer’s disease: a crosscultural study. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2011 Apr; 26(4):415-22

Peripheral inflammatory markers in amnestic mild cognitiveimpairment. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2013 Jul 15. doi:10.1002/gps.3988. Karim S, Hopkins S, Purandare N, Crowther J, MorrisJ, Tyrrell P, Burns A.

Courses offered to GPs

Books:

Oxford Handbook of Old Age Psychiatry. Oxford University Press, UK, 2009.

Get Through MRC Psych. Volume 1, 2 & 3. Royal Society of Medicine Pr Ltd, 2009.