Associate Professor Sam Nightingale

Associate Professor

MBBS, MRCP, DTMH, PhD

Position

  • Associate Professor of Neurology
  • Chair of International HIV-Cognition Working Group
  • Cofounder of NeuroACCESS neurology education project
  • Associate at Race Against Dementia

Research Areas

  • Cognitive impairment in people with HIV
  • Neuroinflammatory mechanisms of Alzheimer’s pathogenesis
  • Neurological infection and global neurology

Current projects

  • CONNECT study: COgnition, Neuropsychiatric symptoms and Neuroinflammation switching to dolutegravir in Cape Town
  • Ingqondo study: Alzheimer’s pathology in ageing people with HIV. Funded by the Donald Gordon Foundation in collaboration with Race Against Dementia
  • New criteria for cognitive impairment in people with HIV, in association with the International HIV-Cognition Working Group
  • NeuroACCESS:  Neurology education project in low-resource southern African settings

Publications:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=sam+nightingale