Raj Kalaria leads the Neurovascular Research Group in the Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He is a professor of neuropathology (cerebrovascular diseases) and a neuroepidemiologist. He is also adjunct professor (brain pathology) at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is a global leader in the studies of vascular dementia (VaD), post-stroke dementia and cerebral small vessel diseases. He has contributed to consensus criteria for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and a PI of dementia research projects in indigenous populations of LMICs, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. He has been a contributor to recent editions of Greenfield’s Neuropathology. Prof Kalaria was past chairman of the African Regional Committee of IBRO. He is a member of the Africa Task Force of the European Academy of Neurology. He was immediate past chairman of the International Society for Vascular Behavioural and Cognitive Disorders (VasCog). He also serves on the steering committees of the African Stroke Organisation and African Dementia Consortium.
Pr Raj Kalaria relaxes by cooking, usually light Indian or Mediterranean, even better barbeque on Sunday evenings, if not walking on a high mountain.
