Rate My Professor Andrew Clegg

Professor Andrew Clegg is Professor of Geriatric Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds, where he heads the Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research. He is an NIHR Research Professor and Honorary Consultant Geriatrician at Bradford Royal Infirmary. Clegg earned a BSc in Pharmacology from University College London in 2000, MBBS with Honours in 2003, Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 2006, MD by research in 2012, and Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 2022. His academic career at Leeds began in 2012 as Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Geriatrician in the Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation, progressing to his current professorial role. His primary research interests lie in ageing, multimorbidity, frailty, delirium, and dementia. He leads multidisciplinary efforts to develop and evaluate complex interventions aimed at improving health outcomes, optimising medicines, and enhancing rehabilitation for older people, stroke survivors, and their carers.

Clegg has secured extensive research funding, including an NIHR Research Professorship of £1,994,652 for 'Maximising independence for older people across community and hospital settings' (2024-2029), and leads major programmes such as the Personalised Care Planning for Older People with Frailty (PROSPER), the Home-based Extended Rehabilitation for Older People (HERO) trial (published in Age and Ageing, 2026), and the Community Ageing Research Study (CARE 75+). He pioneered the electronic Frailty Index (eFI), a multi award-winning prognostic tool using routine primary care data from over one million patients, recommended in NICE multimorbidity guidelines and selected as the 2022 National Medical Schools Council Impact Case Exemplar. Notable publications include 'Frailty in elderly people' (The Lancet, 2013), 'Development and validation of an electronic frailty index' (BMJ, 2016), and 'Best practice guidelines for the management of frailty' (Age and Ageing, 2014). Clegg holds key positions including Co-Director of Health Data Research UK North, Theme Lead for NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber's older people with frailty theme, Director of the global Ageing Research Trialists collaborative, and member of the MRC Ageing Research Steering Group. He has contributed to NICE guideline development groups on falls prevention, multimorbidity, delirium, and perioperative care for frail older people.