Honorary faculty
Our Honorary Faculty are the clinical leaders of their Academy, bringing their expertise and experience, alongside an enthusiasm and drive to improve services and outcomes for people living with a neurological condition. The voluntary role includes bringing new ideas into their Academy, building on and developing new educational content, creating programmes and selecting speakers for our range of educational events.
Dr Daniel Blackburn
Senior lecturer and honorary consultant neurologist
Dr George Crowther
Consultant in old age liaison psychiatry
Prof Iracema Leroi
Professor in geriatric psychiatry
Dr Gregor Russell
Consultant old age psychiatrist and R&D director
Speakers
Our speakers are experts in their fields or those with specific experience of a particular topic. They may present at a MasterClass, webinar, or other events and courses, or may deliver a videocast. Many of our speakers are MasterClass alumni, further developing both a clinical network and the Academy's collegiate feel.
Zena Aldridge
Registered mental health nurse
Prof Suvarna Alladi
Professor of Neurology
Susan Ashcroft-Simpson
RMN in dementia care
Prof Sube Banerjee
Old age psychiatrist
Prof Frederik Barkhof
Professor of Neuroradiology
Jo Baxter
Policy manager
Abhisweta Bhattacharjee
Research Assistant, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Robert Briggs
Consultant geriatrician
Prof Alistair Burns
Professor of old age psychiatry, vice dean for the faculty of medical and human sciences
Vickie Campbell-Hemming
Consultant clinical psychologist
Siobhan Casey
Business leader
Dr Dennis Chan
Consultant neurologist
Barbara Chavunduka
Community mental health team manager
Dr Yaohua Chen
Associate professor
Dr Lucy Colwill
ST5 trainee in old age psychiatry
Laura Cook
Physiotherapist
Dr Liz Coulthard
Associate professor in dementia neurology
Dr Jayashree Dasgupta
Clinical Psychologist with a specialization in neuropsychology
Prof Piers Dawes
Professor of audiology
Dr Clara Domínguez Vivero
Clinical neurologist, galician health service, pontevedra, Spain
Dr Ross Dunne
Consultant old age psychiatrist
Prof Dawn Edge
Professor of mental health and inclusivity
Dr Marc Edwards
Consultant neurologist
Dr Claire Fang
DVLA Dr
Hayley Farrell
Deputy manager
Dr Shahriar Faruque
Psychiatrist
Penny Fosten
Chief Executive, Arts4Dementia
Dr Sarah Fox
Senior fellow
Dr Miriam Galvin
Associate professor in Intersectional Research Methodology
Dr Mahesh Gopakumar
Dual trainee, later life & general adult psychiatry
Azizul Haque
Founder of Alzheimer Society of Bangladesh
Dr Karen Harrison Dening
Head of research & publications, dementia UK and admiral nursing, professor of dementia nursing (honorary), De Montfort University, Leicester
Dr Soumya Hegde
Geriatric Psychiatrist
Sue Hinds
Head of Services, Dementia Carers Count
Alison Holden
Specialist Occupational Therapist in Dementia Care and Memory Assessment Services
Emma Hooper
Occupational Therapist
Dr Badrul Islam
Assistant Scientist
Dr Raisul Islam Khan
Specialist in Geriatric & Gerontology
Dr Chineze Ivenso
Consultant old age psychiatrist
Dr Mehran Javeed
Consultant in old age psychiatry
Zumer Jawaid
Consultant Psychiatrist
Jo Johnson
Independent clinical psychologist
Dr Norah Jordan
Consultant clinical neuropsychologist
Dr Joseph Kane
Academic clinical lecturer
Dr Jonathan Kaye
Clinical lead for dementia
Dr Liam Kennedy
Senior registrar, old age psychiatry
Prof Sean Kennelly
Consultant geriatrician
Dr Irina Kinchin
Health Economist with expertise in quantitative and qualitative research
Dr Tobias Langheinrich
Consultant neurologist
Elsie Ledger
Senior community project lead
Dr Sean Lennon
Lead consultant for old age psychiatry
Tomás León
Psychiatrist, Memory Clinic Hospital del Salvador, Chile
Jules Lockett
Instructor
Ann Marie Jones
Chief executive
Dr Helen Martin
Primary Care Physician
Dr Eimear McGlinchey
Assistant Professor in Intellectual Disability, Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability
Dr Nina Mohan
CT2 Psychiatry
Alison Morris
Community occupational therapist
Dr Sheeba Ninan
Consultant in Geriatric Psychiatry
Dr Ross Overshott
Consultant in liaison psychiatry
Adele Owen
Tactical mental health lead
Prof John O’Brien
Professor of old age psychiatry and NIHR national specialty lead for dementia
Dr Rónán O’Caoimh
Consultant geriatrician
Phil Parker
Dementia clinical nurse lead
Tim Parry
Director of communications
Maggie Parry-Hughes
Admiral nurse academy lead at Dementia UK
Prof Peter Passmore
Professor of Ageing & Geriatric Medicine
Prof Niall Pender
Associate Professor
Dr Nilika Perera
Consultant in liaison psychiatry
Dr Richard Perry
Consultant neurologist
Dr Kavitha Perumparaichallai
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Dr Natalie Phillips
Professor, Dept of Psychology
Lucy Pitt
Older adult research/memory nurse
Dr Róisín Purcell
Consultant geriatrician
Prof Craig Ritchie
Professor of the Psychiatry of Ageing
Dr Adam Roche
Geriatrics registrar and lecturer registrar in Global Brain Health
Dr Sanjib Saha
Senior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health
Dr Jeffrey Schryer
Clinical lead
Dr Rajen Shah
Consultant psychiatrist
Abdul Shakoor
BAME Dementia Family Link Worker
Dr P T Sivakumar
Professor of Psychiatry
Briony Sloper
Deputy director of nursing and quality
Rashed Suhrawardy
Dementia Care Specialist
Nicky Taylor
Artist and Researcher
Sue Thomas
Independent healthcare consultant & PPV member, NHSE neurology transformation CRG
Dr Amanda Thornton
Older adult consultant psychologist
Helen Tormey
Study Coordinator, SENSE-Cog CARE
Dr Dominic Trépel
Assistant Professor of Health Economics
Dr Sridhar Vaitheswaran
Assistant Director & Consultant Psychiatrist, Dementia Care in SCARF (DEMCARES)
Dr Mathew Varghese
Senior Professor of Psychiatry
Sarah Walker
Programme Manager – Capability Building
Dr Wilby Williamson
Assistant professor, physiology
Dr Walter Wittich
Associate Professor
Prof Emma Wolverson
Clinical psychologist and professor of ageing and dementia
