Dementia 2020 Scotland Speakers

Dr Fergus Daly

Biostatistics Team Lead, Frontier Science Scotland

Fergus has led the Statistics and Programming team at Frontier Science Scotland since 2013. FSS is part of an international not-for-profit organisation providing innovative data management and analysis for clinical trials in a variety of disease settings. Previously Fergus worked at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing at the Open University HQ in Milton Keynes and at the Scottish School of Primary Care in Dundee. He has a particular interest in the analysis of data for the identification of effective treatments for Bell’s Palsy.

Case Study 1

An epidemiological study of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

12:10 - 12:35

Dr Sue Northrop
Vice Chair
British Psychological Society Scotland Committee

Dr Sue Northrop is currently Vice Chair of the British Psychological Society in Scotland and a member of the Society's Faculty for the Psychology of Older People. Sue set up and runs Dementia Friendly East Lothian, a community-led initiative that aims to make every community in East Lothian a great place for people with dementia and ...

Caroline Lamb
Chief Executive
NHS Education for Scotland

Caroline is the Chief Executive of NHS Education for Scotland, appointed in October 2015. Caroline graduated from Kings College London and trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, working with clients including Castle Cement, Citibank, Nestle and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. After qualifying as a ...

Kevin Mitchell
Executive Director of Scrutiny and Assurance
The Care Inspectorate

Kevin was appointed Executive Director of Scrutiny and Assurance at The Care Inspectorate in February 2016. He is responsible for all the regulated care service inspections and overseeing the work associated with that. He is also responsible for the development and delivery of the Care Inspectorate's strategic inspections, including ...

Gillian Barclay
Head of Dementia Innovations Unit
The Scottish Government

Gillian Barclay joined the dementia policy team in Scottish Government in 2015. An analyst by background, Gillian began her career in the Scottish Government in 2000, having previously worked in local government and the private sector. Following posts in Local Government Finance, Food and Fisheries policy, she became head of the ...

Dr Frank Gunn-Moore
Executive Committee Member
Alzheimer`s Research UK - Scotland Network Centre

As Molecular Neurobiologists my group are interested in uncovering how proteins work in living cells. We have worked on a number of proteins that are involved in the formation and development of the mammalian nervous system and how they are affected in diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. In particular, in Alzheimer’s disease we have ...

Professor John Starr
Director
Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre

Having graduated from Cambridge and London, John Starr came to Edinburgh as a research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry in 1989 to investigate the relationship between blood pressure and cognition. After moving to become a research fellow in the Department of Medicine, he spent two years at the Hammersmith Hospital, London before returning ...

Dr Donald Macaskill
Chief Executive
Scottish Care

Dr Donald Macaskill has worked for many years in the health and social care sectors across the United Kingdom specialising in learning disability and older people’s work. A particular professional focus has been issues related to bereavement, palliative care and individual rights. For thirteen years he ran his own equality and human rights ...

Professor June Andrews OBE
Professor Emeritus
University of Stirling

Professor June Andrews FRCN has been Director of the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling for over ten years. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chief Nursing Officers of the UK. She has also been recognised with the prestigious Robert Tiffany ...

Claire Sweeney
Director of Quality Assurance
Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Claire is the Interim Director for Quality Assurance at Healthcare Improvement Scotland. Claire has led major reviews of health and social care services in Scotland, previously with Audit Scotland, where she was responsible for national audits of health and social care integration, primary and community care and housing. She has led reviews ...

Irene Oldfather
Director
Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)

Irene is Director at the ALLIANCE leading on Dementia Carer Voices, Active Ageing, Care Opinion and Prescription for Excellence programmes and she is also The ALLIANCE Strategic Lead on the National Conversation and Our Voice initiatives. She is a member of the Scottish Government Commitment 11/QESDC Implementation & Monitoring ...

Gillian Aitchison
Country Director - Scotland
Skills For Health

Gillian is the Country Director for Scotland and Northern Ireland for Skills for Health Ltd which incorporates Skills for Health and Skills for Justice. Skills for Health are a not for profit organisation supporting employers to improve outcomes and raise standards across their business. Sfh develop and deliver solutions that add value for ...

Dr Fergus Daly
Biostatistics Team Lead
Frontier Science Scotland

Professor Craig Ritchie
Director
University of Edinburgh Centre for Dementia Prevention

Prof Ritchie is currently Professor of the Psychiatry of Ageing at the University of Edinburgh having moved from his role as Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Mental Health at Imperial College London in October 2014. He is a leading authority on Clinical Trials in Dementia and has been senior investigator on over 30 drug trials of both disease ...

Ian Weatherhead
Senior Admiral Nurse
Dementia UK

Ian has over thirty years experience in mental health nursing, originally training in Leeds, and spending his formative years as a hospital charge nurse in acute and forensic care, Ian became a Lead Nurse for NHS Highland in the mid 90’s and developed a multi disciplinary Community Mental Health Team serving a remote and rural area of North ...

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Dr Fergus Daly

Biostatistics Team Lead, Frontier Science Scotland

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