John-Paul Taylor is Professor of Translational Dementia Research with the Institute of Translational and Clinical Research at Newcastle University and an Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry with the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (NTW) NHS Trust.

His research focuses on the application of neuroimaging and neurophysiological approaches in understanding symptom aetiology in Lewy body dementia. Clinically he leads a specialist Lewy body dementia clinic in Newcastle and works in the local memory clinic.