Susan Shenkin
Professor at Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSusan Shenkin is a professor and academic geriatrician at the University of Edinburgh with 11 years of experience leading interdisciplinary research into care for older people, especially delirium, dementia, frailty, and multimorbidity. She directs a care-home-focused research portfolio that blends data-driven innovation, systematic reviews, observational and interventional studies to improve transitions of care and workforce understanding amid demographic pressures. A strong advocate for flexible, part-time academic careers, she combines leadership roles—co-chairing ENRICH Scotland and CHIP, Deputy Director of the Advanced Care Research Centre Academy, and membership of EuGMS Academic Board—with hands-on methodological work. Her background in evolutionary biology and R points to a quantitative, analytic approach that informs both epidemiological and mechanistic perspectives. As former Systematic Reviews Editor for Age and Ageing and medical advisor to the Lothian Birth Cohorts, she bridges rigorous evidence synthesis with long-running cohort insights. Based in Edinburgh, she focuses on translating research into practicable, evidence-based innovations for care homes and older people.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
susjoh/fibonacci
Jan 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
susjoh/pedantry
Feb 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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