Kenneth Rockwood
Kenneth Rockwood is Professor of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine & Neurology) at Dalhousie, an active staff physician at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, and the Senior Medical Director of Frailty and Elder Care Network for Nova Scotia Health. He serves as the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research at Dalhousie University. He is Associate Director of the Canadian Collaboration on Neurodegeneration in Aging.
A native of Newfoundland, Ken received his MD from Memorial University, completed internal medicine training at the University of Alberta and Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie.
A leading authority on frailty, he has more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and nine books to his credit, including the eighth edition of Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology.
Since 2017, facilitating his work with the National Health Service of England and Wales, Ken has held an appointment as Honorary Professor of Population Science and Experimental Medicine, University College London. He is President of Ardea Outcomes, a spin-off company that focuses on individualized outcome measurement in several complex diseases.
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