Adrian Treloar MBBS, FRCP, MRCPsych, MRCGP, DCH, DRCOG

Dr. Adrian Treloar is a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, working in a memory service with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in South East London. He was formerly also the clinical director of Older Peoples Mental Health Services in Oxleas. Adrian has been a consultant since 1995 and has done extensive work developing the concepts of palliative care in dementia. The Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service looks after people with dementia at home until they die and won a National NHS Innovation Award in 2013. He has also done ground-breaking work researching the practice and ethics of covert medication, the use of antipsychotics in dementia as well research into ECT and delirium. Adrian has over 30 years of experience working in the NHS, working in old age psychiatry, and also as a former GP. Main research interests – delirium; palliative care of dementia; antipsychotics in dementia, ethics and mental health law. Adrian was the chief investigator in the MAGD study of the use of Memantine for agitation in dementia.