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Dr Angie (Angeliki) Kehagia is a scientist, doctor, teacher and patient advocate. She graduated from Pierce in 1999 with distinction and was honoured to address her peers at Commencement. She read Experimental Psychology at Oxford as a Newman Scholar and completed her PhD in Neuroscience at Cambridge as a Gates Foundation Scholar. She later went on to complete graduate medical training at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry as a Foulkes Fellow.
Angie has held numerous academic posts including a Sir Isaac Newton fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, fellowships at the University of St Andrews, the University of British Columbia, Canada, and lectureships at Birkbeck and King’s College London. She is known primarily for her work on cognitive impairment and dementia in Parkinson’s disease, and also served as Medical Advisor at the Cure Parkinson’s Trust, leading on patient communication and advocacy for those living with the condition and their families.
She currently serves as Deputy Director at the King’s Technology Evaluation Centre, where she works with patients, scientists, clinicians and regulators to deliver large scale evaluations of new health technologies aimed at improving patients’ lives and helping healthcare systems to deliver these benefits at scale.
As an experienced teacher and award-winning writer, she has lectured and spoken to audiences ranging from medical students and healthcare professionals to patient groups, law faculty and disaster relief workers. She currently shares her time between London and Athens.
