Dr Bart Sheehan

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Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Associate Clinical Professor of Old Age Psychiatry

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Mental Health & Wellbeing
Room B149
Medical School Building
Gibbet Hill Campus
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL 		Tel: 024 7657 4387
Fax: 024 7652 8375
Email: B.Sheehan@warwick.ac.uk

 

RESEARCH PROFILE


Care of older people in institutions, especially care homes and general hospital. Evaluation of complex interventions for dementia, including exercise and care home staff training. Methods of improving trials for people with dementia.

BACKGROUND


Bart studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1991. He did his clinical training in psychiatry in Oxford and at the Maudsley Hospital. He spent three years as Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry in Oxford, where he completed his MD research project, before taking up his current post in October 2002. He is a clinical academic, combining his teaching role (leading psychiatry course at WMS), research portfolio, and working as consultant Old Age psychiatrist for the Rugby sector of the local Trust.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


  • Exercise in Dementia, DAPA, with Prof Sallie E Lamb, Clinical Trials Unit, - - - - Dr Chris Bridle CPsychol - Health Sciences Research Institute - - Miss Claire Daffern - Health Sciences Research Institute Dr Sarah J Duggan - Health Sciences Research Institute - - - - Dr Anne-Marie Slowther - Institute of Clinical Education - Professor Frances E Griffiths - Health Sciences Research Institute Dr Bart Sheehan - Health Sciences Research Institute Prof Margaret Thorogood - Health Sciences Research Institute Prof Andrew J Oswald - Economics Dr Ranjit Lall - Health Sciences Research Institute, Funded by: HTA, Project Start Date: 01/04/2011 Project End Date: 30/09/2015
  • Cluster randomised controlled trial of an OT intervention for residents with stroke in UK care homes (OTCH), Funded by: HTA, Project Start Date: 01/09/2009 Project End Date: 31/08/2013

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Sheehan B,D'Souza G, Thein N and O'Malley R, (2007) 'Are care homes depressing for people with dementia? (letter)' International Journal Of Geriatric Psychiatry 22 (8), 816 - 817 (0885-6230)
  • Sheehan B,Burton E and Mitchell L, (2006) 'Outdoor wayfinding in dementia' Dementia 5 (2), 271 - 281 (1471-3012)
  • Sheehan B,Saad K, (2006) 'Service innovations: a dedicated drug treatment service for dementia' Psychiatric Bulletin 30 146 - 148 (0955-6036)
  • Sheehan B,Lall R and Bass C, (2005) 'Does somatization influence quality of life among older primary care patients?' International Journal Of Geriatric Psychiatry 20 (10), 967 - 972 (0885-6230)
  • Howard R, McShane R, Lindesay J, Ritchie C, Baldwin A, Barber R, Burns A, Dening T, Findlay D, Holmes C, Hughes A, Jacoby R, Jones R, Jones R, McKeith I, Macharouthu A, O?Brien J, Passmore P, Sheehan B, Juszczak E, Katona C, Hills R, Knapp M, Ballard C, Brown R, Banerjee S, Onions C, Griffin M, Adams J, Gray R, Johnson T, Bentham P, Phillips P(2012) 'Donepezil and Memantine in Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease' New England Journal Of Medicine 366 893 - 903 (0028-4793)

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Conferences

RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

  • Does the built environment affect depression in older people living in care homes?, Date of Completion: 2012
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