Prof Peter Garrard

Consultant Neurologist

Prof Garrard specialises in neurological disorders, particularly neurodegenerative dementia, cognitive disorders, progressive language disorders, early onset dementia and frontotemporal dementia.

Professional profile:

Prof Garrard graduated from the University of Oxford in 1985, proceeding to earn an MD ChB in 1990 from the University of Bristol and a PhD in 1999 from the University of Cambridge.

He took up a post as a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in 2001, later moving to the Royal Free Hospital where he stayed until 2007. He then became a consultant neurologist at Southampton General Hospital in 2007 for three years.

Prof Garrard has held academic appointments: as Senior Lecturer in Clinical Neuroscience at University College London from 2001 to 2007, Reader in Neurology at the University of Southampton from 2007-2010, and (currently) Professor of Neurology at St George’s, University of London.

Prof Garrard directs the dementia group of the Neuroscience and Cell Biology Reasearch Institute at City St George’s, University of London. The group’s research focuses on language change in dementia, computational linguistics, imaging correlates of progressive aphasia, and the molecular mechanisms of pathology in frontotemporal dementia.  Research has been supported by the Medical Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, and the St George’s Hospital Charity.