Dr Lucy Beishon
Clinical Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant Geriatrician
ORCID 0000-0002-3140-8688
Dr Lucy Beishon appointed 2026 is a Clinical Associate Professor in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Leeds and Honorary Consultant Geriatrician at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Lucy completed her medical training at the University of Leicester and subsequently completed the NIHR integrated academic training pathway across Nottingham and Leicester hospital Trusts. She was awarded a Vivensa Foundation research training fellowship in 2018 to investigate the effects of brain training on brain blood flow in healthy older people and people living with mild cognitive impairment or dementia.
Lucy continued her research through an NIHR funded academic clinical lectureship and received an NIHR Three Schools Career Development Award and Vivensa Foundation pilot grant to undertake a mixed methods study to improve access to physical healthcare for older people receiving secondary mental healthcare (people living with severe mental illness and dementia).
Lucy currently holds an NIHR Advanced fellowship to design, evaluate, and scale an integrated physical-mental health service for older people in inpatient mental health settings. This work will be conducted across Bradford and Leeds mental health Trusts.
Lucy is currently the deputy chair for the integrated psychiatric and geriatric care task and finish group which sits within the EuGMS Brain Health and Dementia Specialist Interest Group. She is also a representative on the British Geriatrics Society Dementia, Delirium, and Brain Health Specialist Interest Group.
Recent Funding Awarded
Improving access to physical healthcare for older people in inpatient mental health settings: ImPreSs-Care2 study , National Institute for Health Research (2026) £1,259,470.00
Team Morebility: optimising medications, mobility, and mental health, National Institute for Health Research (2024) £99,995.00
Perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery scale up (POPS-SUp) Contract Variation, National Institute for Health (2024) £69,958.38
Developing a physical activity programme for older people with severe mental illness, Eileen Cowan PhD studentship (supervisor), University of Leicester (2024) £70,000.00
Using biofeedback during exergaming to attenuate alpha oscillations to improve postural control in people living with Parkinson’s, Parkinson’s UK (2023) £200,000.00
Improving access to physical health care for older people in mental health settings: ImPreSs-Care study, Vivensa Foundation (2023) £112,918.00
Improving physical health care in older people living with dementia in mental health settings: The ImPreSs-Care Study, National Institute for Health Research (2022) £46,917.00
Improving the detection of cardioembolic stroke using stroke simulation and machine learning techniques, University of Leicester (2022) £14,081.00
Improving cardiovascular outcomes in older people in mental health settings, John and Lucille Van Geest Foundation (2022) £19,028.00
Vascular mEchanismS in, dePression, dementiA, and deliRum: The VESPAR project, British Heart Foundation Accelerator Award (2022) £15,000.00
Vascular mEchanismS in, dePression, dementiA, and deliRum: The VESPAR project, Academy of Medical Sciences (2022) £29,276.14
Machine learning and Monte-Carlo simulation approaches to computer-guided interpretation of stroke brain images, Health Data Research UK (2021) £70,000.00
The cognition and flow study: The effects of brain training on brain blood flow, Vivensa Foundation (2019) £207,289.00
Recent Publications
Edwards O, Nicholls JK, Desai B, Panerai RB, Ball JD, Sensier Y, Mukaetova-Ladinska E, Beishon L. Feasibility of integrated transcranial Doppler ultrasound–near-infrared spectroscopy to measure cerebral haemodynamics in dementia, delirium, and depression (the VESPAR Project): A pilot study. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2026;432:1
Ball JD, Panerai RB, Minhas JS, Edwards O, Alshehri A, Sensier Y, Robinson T, Beishon LC. Simultaneous macrovasculature and microvasculature cerebral autoregulation derived from transfer function analysis of integrated cerebral haemodynamic data in older adults. Physiological Measurement. 2026;47(5):055003.
Walker LM, Nogueira RC, Vasilopoulos T, Ince J, Levis B, Beishon LC, et al. The effect of end-tidal carbon dioxide levels on dynamic cerebral autoregulation and clinical outcome in acute ischaemic stroke: An INFOMATAS study. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 2026;485:125872.
Mannion L, Davies F, Proctor E, Giles EL, Dawes H, Best K, Jones M, et al., Beishon L. Polypharmacy, severe mental illness and impaired mobility in multiple long-term health conditions: a scoping review. Age and Ageing. 2026;55(Suppl 1).
Hickey B, Burton JK, Ciminata G, Sampson EL, Mukaetova-Ladinska EB, Beishon L. Using data linkage to identify predictors of care home entry after psychiatric hospital discharge: a retrospective cohort study. Age and Ageing. 2026;55(Suppl 1).
Beishon L, Hickey B, Desai B, Chari D, Davies F, Evley R, et al. Improving access to physical healthcare for older people in mental health settings: the ImPreSs-care qualitative study. Age and Ageing. 2025;54(9).
Evans NR, Pinho J, Beishon L, Nguyen T, Ganesh A, Balasundaram B, et al. Frailty and stroke: Global implications for assessment, research, and clinical care—A WSO scientific statement. International Journal of Stroke. 2025;20(8):905–917.
Chari D, Chithiramohan T, Sawhney I, Mukaetova-Ladinska EB, Beishon L, Subramaniam H. Risk of venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in older in-patients with mental illness: systematic review. BJPsych Bulletin. 2025;50(1):36–48.
Cheshire BL, Messeder SJ, Pepper CJ, Beishon LC, Sayers RD, Houghton JSM. Association of cognitive impairment and peripheral artery disease (PAD): A systematic review. Vascular Medicine. 2025;30(6):724–739.
Nogueira RC, Beishon LC, Castro P, Claassen J, Minhas JS. Transcranial Doppler in the era of personalized medicine: An important tool for the assessment of cerebrovascular function. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2025;55(4):427–435.
Handley M, Windle G, Mathie E, Greco H-A, Underwood B, Surr C, et al., Beishon L. Living with dementia and other long-term conditions: what works for patient-caregiver dyads? A realist review. Aging & Mental Health. 2025;29(8):1376–1386.
Evans NR, Minhas JS, Beishon LC, Quinn TJ. Stroke medicine is frailty medicine: Clinical and research priorities for frailty in stroke. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2025.
Evans NR, Fearon P, Beishon L, Pinho J, Quinn TJ. The importance of frailty in stroke and how to measure it. Stroke. 2025;56(1).
Minhas JS, Quinn TJ, Evans NR, Beishon LC. Frailty in Stroke. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2025;54(4):427–428.
Panerai RB, Davies A, Haunton VJ, Alshehri A, Katsogridakis E, Beishon LC, et al. The influence of dynamic cerebral autoregulation efficiency on its directional sensitivity. American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 2025;329(5):R630–R642.
Rojas-Pescio H, Beishon L, Panerai RB, Chacón M. Cognitive brain lateralization through neurovascular coupling in healthy subjects: A statistical complexity analysis. Physiological Reports. 2025;13(15).
Chithiramohan T, O’Kelly K, Beishon L, Boyle A. Evaluating the utility of the Joint Geriatric and Psychiatry Complex Parkinson’s Clinic: A service evaluation. BJPsych Open. 2025;11(S1):S183.
Edwards O, Ball J, Sensier Y, Panerai R, Beishon L. Determining the feasibility of a TCD-NIRS protocol to measure cerebral haemodynamics in dementia, delirium, and depression. Age and Ageing. 2025;54(Suppl 1).
Hickey B, Desai B, Davies F, Chari D, Evley R, et al., Beishon L. Improving physical health care in older people in mental health settings: the ImPreSs-care qualitative study. Age and Ageing. 2025;54(Suppl 1).
Beishon L. Subcomponent analysis of the directional sensitivity of dynamic cerebral autoregulation. American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2025.
Beishon L, Vasilopoulos T, Salinet ASM, Levis B, Barnes S, Hills E, et al. Individual patient data meta-analysis of dynamic cerebral autoregulation and functional outcome after ischemic stroke. Stroke. 2024;55(5):1235–1244.
Beishon L, Hickey B, Desai B, Chithiramohan T, Evley R, Subramaniam H, et al. Integrated physical–mental healthcare services in specialist settings to improve outcomes for older people living with mental health diagnoses: A systematic review. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2024;39(9).
Elliott AR, Mistri AK, Eveson D, Minhas JS, Quinn TJ, Robinson TG, Beishon LC. Prevalence of frailty in the transient ischaemic attack clinic and its associations with mortality. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2024;54(5):694–702.
Ball JD, Hills E, Altaf A, Ramesh P, Green M, Surti FBS, et al., Beishon LC. Neurovascular coupling methods in healthy individuals using transcranial Doppler ultrasonography: A systematic review and consensus agreement. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 2024;44(12):1409–1429.
Rizko JM, Beishon LC, Panerai RB, Marmarelis VZ. Cognitive activity significantly affects dynamic cerebral autoregulation, but not dynamic vasoreactivity, in healthy adults. Frontiers in Physiology. 2024;15.
Ladthavorlaphatt K, Surti FBS, Beishon LC, Robinson TG, Panerai RB. Depression of dynamic cerebral autoregulation during neural activation: The role of responders and non-responders. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 2024;44(7):1231–1245.
Panerai RB, Alshehri A, Beishon LC, Davies A, Haunton VJ, et al. Determinants of the dynamic cerebral critical closing pressure response to changes in mean arterial pressure. Physiological Measurement. 2024;45(6):065006.
Davies A, Gurung D, Ladthavorlaphatt K, Mankoo A, Panerai RB, Robinson TG, Minhas JS, Beishon LC. The effect of CO₂ on the age dependence of neurovascular coupling. Journal of Applied Physiology. 2024;137(2):445–459.
Ball JD, Davies A, Gurung D, Mankoo A, Panerai R, Minhas JS, Robinson T, Beishon L. The effect of posture on the age dependence of neurovascular coupling. Physiological Reports. 2024;12(17).
Desai B, Edwards O, Beishon L. The role of cerebral blood flow in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease dementia. Aging and Health Research. 2024;4(2):100188.
Chithiramohan T, Santhosh S, Threlfall G, Hull L, Mukaetova-Ladinska EB, Subramaniam H, Beishon L. Culture-fair cognitive screening tools for assessment of cognitive impairment: A systematic review. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Reports. 2024;8(1):289–306.
Czerwinski-Alley NC, Chithiramohan T, Subramaniam H, Beishon L, Mukaetova-Ladinska EB. The effect of translation and cultural adaptations on diagnostic accuracy and test performance in dementia cognitive screening tools: A systematic review. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Reports. 2024;8(1):659–675.
Rojas-Pescio H, Beishon L, Panerai R, Chacón M. Statistical complexity analysis of neurovascular coupling with cognitive stimulation in healthy participants. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2024;36(9):1995–2010.