Dementia 2020 2019 Speakers

Jeremy Hughes CBE
Chief Executive
Alzheimer`s Society

Jeremy Hughes joined Alzheimer’s Society in November 2010. He is leading the charity in its five year strategy, ‘Delivering on Dementia 2012-17’, managing an annual budget in excess of £90m. Jeremy co-chairs the Dementia Friendly Communities Champions Group with top broadcaster Angela Rippon for the UK Prime Minister, ...

Dr Jill Rasmussen
Clinical Representative for Dementia
Royal College of General Practitioners

Dr. Jill Rasmussen MBChB, FRCGP, FFPM Is a Clinician with special interest in psychiatry and neurology. Following an initial period of nine years in the NHS she worked in the pharmaceutical industry in Europe, the US and UK for ten years where she held senior positions in a number of companies with responsibility for the development of new drugs ...

Dr Martin Vernon
National Clinical Director for Older People
NHS England

Martin qualified in 1988 in Manchester. Following training in the North West he moved to East London to train in Geriatric Medicine where he also acquired an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King’s College. He returned to Manchester in 1999 to take up post as Consultant Geriatrician building community geriatrics services in South ...

Martin Rossor
National Director for Dementia Research
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

Professor Rossor graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge and Kings College Hospital Medical School London. He trained in Neurology at the National Hospital, Queen Square and undertook research into the neurochemistry of degenerative disease at the MRC neurochemical pharmacology unit in Cambridge. He is the NIHR National Director ...

James Cross
National Dementia Lead
Skills for Care

James has spent the past 15 years working in a variety of management roles across health and social care. Since 2011, James has been working as Head of Area and as National Dementia Lead for Skills for Care. James has also undertaken a secondment at the Department of Health in the dementia policy team during this time. James has ...

Stian Lavik
Director of International Markets
Motitech AS

Stian Lavik is Director of International Markets in Motitech and Director of Motitech UK Ltd. He has been working building the growing Motitview-community of physically active seniors in care homes and adult day care centres in the Nordic countries and is now spreading the good word and concept in the UK.

Professor Louise Robinson
Director
Newcastle University Institute for Ageing

As Director of the Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, I facilitate an interdisciplinary network of over 700 academics involved in the broad range of ageing research and innovation work at Newcastle. In this role,I led the successful 2015 bid to Government Office/MRC for Newcastle University to host the National Centre for Ageing ...

Professor Wendy Burn
President
Royal College of Psychiatrists

Wendy was elected President of the College in 2017. She holds this role until 2020 and leads the RCPsych on behalf of its members and associates. Professor Wendy Burn became a consultant old age psychiatrist in Leeds in 1990 and now works part time in a community post. Her main clinical interest is dementia. She has held a ...

Alison Murray
Head of Inspection & Dementia Lead
Care Quality Commission

Alison is a registered nurse, with many years’ experience in both the NHS and private sector. She has specialist qualifications in the care of older people, and spent a number of years managing large nursing homes. Alison has worked in regulation since 2002. She worked with Bradford University to devise the Short Observational Framework for ...

Soraya Cottrell
HISC Eastbourne Owner & Director of Care
Home Instead Senior Care UK

Soraya Cottrell co-owns with her husband Ian the Home Instead Senior Care franchise in Eastbourne and Hailsham. They joined the Home Instead network in 2015 to provide high quality care to older clients in the comfort of their home. Soraya is the Director of Care and her role is to ensure that her, and her team provides the best quality care to ...

Elin Haf Davies
Founder
Aparito

Dr Elin Haf Davies had 20+ clinical, academic and regulatory experience of drug development at Great Ormond St Children’s Hospital and University College London and the European Medicine Agency before she founded Aparito. She is passionate about developing patient centric solutions, and seems innovation and technology as a means to put the ...

Carly Tutty-Johnson
Healthy Ageing & Dementia Programme Lead
Public Health England

Carly Tutty-Johnson is the Older Adults programme Manager within the Life Course team at Public Health England where she is leading a programme of work to develop the narrative around Productive Healthy Ageing. Carly has a social psychology degree and has dedicated her career to various national policy implementation and programme delivery roles ...

Shirley Hall
Head of Innovation and Wellbeing
The ExtraCare Charitable Trust

Shirley has a background in general nursing, and worked at the British Heart Foundation for 18 years heading up the regional team and managing their flagship Hearty Lives programme which addressed inequalities in cardiovascular disease. She joined ExtraCare in July 2013, to oversee the Well-being and Enriched Opportunities Programme’s ...

Dr Jennifer Bute
Person Living with Dementia
Service User

Dr. Jennifer Bute was a highly qualified senior doctor in a large clinical practice, whose patients included those with dementia. Then she began to notice symptoms in herself. She was finally given a diagnosis of Young Onset Dementia in 2009. Jennifer believes that her dementia is an opportunity as well as a challenge. When she resigned as a ...

Naomi Snell
Head of Partnerships
PPP Taking Care

Naomi Snell, Head of Partnerships at PPP Taking Care, has over 24 years’ experience working in healthcare, the public sector, long term care, financial services and latterly the telecare sector. She began her career working for Guardian Royal Exchange which later became part of the AXA Group. In recent years she has worked with ...

Jari Ekblad
Chief Operating Officer
MariCare Oy

Jari Ekblad has been leading and developing global businesses all his career. Currently he is responsible for an innovative Finnish Elderly Care company MariCare Oy, which provides Smart Floor and Activity Sensing solutions. A forward thinking spokesperson for wellbeing care technology for senior citizens in the private and public sector.

James Puttick
Managing Director
Direct Healthcare Solutions

James Puttick established Direct Healthcare Solutions Ltd in 2010, the company being formed to supply, install and maintain a range of healthcare equipment to both the public and private healthcare sectors. As Managing Director James takes an active role in the growth and direction of the business and has seen the company establish itself as a ...

Lindsay Courtney
Clinical Lead for Intermediate Care and Reablement
Home Group

Lindsay is Home Group’s Clinical Lead for Intermediate Care and Reablement and is determined to deliver innovative solutions to complex health and social care needs. Lindsay is working on services that promote independence through rehabilition and reablement and to embed assistive technology in service design. She has a broad ...

Teresa Snaith
Head of Development
Home Group

Dr Sina Habibi
CEO
Cognetivity Neurosciences

Dr Sina Habibi is CEO and co-founder at Cognetivity Neurosciences, a company providing early (pre-clinical) detection and remote monitoring of dementia using artificial intelligence and the latest neuroscience. With a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge University, Sina has in-depth experience in ...

Martin Jones
Managing Director
Home Instead Senior Care UK

As Managing Director of Home Instead Senior Care, Martin Jones is responsible for leading the entire UK operation. When his father become seriously ill, Martin experienced first-hand the varied and sometimes poor levels of care in the UK. Martin wanted to join an environment where he could help to make a difference to the lives of other older ...

Michael Spellman
Dementia Lead
The ExtraCare Charitable Trust

Since 2013 Michael has led ExtraCare’s Enriched Opportunities Programme, an evidence based service supporting people living with dementia and common mental health conditions in extra care housing. Currently Michael is involved in delivering the objectives of ExtraCare’s dementia strategy which focusses on a range of initiatives ...

Solfrid Sagstad
Executive Market Manager
Motitech AS

Solfrid Sagstad is Executive Markets Manager in Motitech. Solfrid & Stian have both been working building the growing Motiview community of physically active seniors in care homes and adult day care centres in the Nordic countries and are now spreading the good word and concept in the UK.

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