Dr Alex Dregan is a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, King’s College London. He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Education, University of London where he trained in life course epidemiology. He also posses an MSc in Applied Psychology from Cardiff University and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Surrey.
Research interests are the interface between mental and physical health, multimorbidity within the context of depression, large databases and electronic health records, chronic inflammation and common mental health disorders, and life course epidemiology.
Evidence from electronic health records to improve the health of very old people: cohort study of benefits and harms of cardiovascular risk management.