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