Dr John Hindle

Dr John Hindle is a consultant physician in care of the elderly in the Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board based at Llandudno General Hospital in North Wales .  He qualified at St. Mary’s and trained in general medical rotations including neurology in Hull.  He also trained in psychiatry and neuro-psychiatry at St. Mary’s and the Maudsley Hospital rotations and then specialised in medicine for the elderly training in general medicine and geriatrics at St. George’s Hospital, London . He is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He was appointed to his present post in 1990.  He has a special interest in movement disorders and neurological rehabilitation and pioneered multi-disciplinary movement disorder clinics in North Wales. He was a founder member, secretary and Chair of the British Geriatrics Society Section on Parkinson’s disease and represented the BGS on the NICE PD guidelines committee. He was also of the guideline development groups for the NICE guidelines on The Assessment and management of the Acutely ill adult, and the guideline on Depression in Chronic Physical Disease published in October 2009. He was clinical director in the Trust taking the leading role in the development of neurological rehabilitation.  He is Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neurodegenerative diseases at the School of Medical Sciences at Bangor University and has research interests in cognition and psychiatry of Parkinson’s disease. Current funded research includes PROMS-PD, MUSTARDD-PD, bilingualism and cognitive impairment, dopamine and emotion and neurofeedback in Parkinson’s disease. He has lectured widely on the multi-disciplinary management and the neuro-psychiatry of Parkinson’s disease. He is co-editor of the textbook “Parkinson’s Disease in the Older Patient” published by Radcliffe in 2008 and is currently writing a textbook on the neuro-psychiatry of Parkinson’s disease. He is a member of the Clinical Studies Group in Parkinson’s disease of DeNDRoN and a member of the steering group for Neurodemcymru

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