Speakers

• Paul Aisen

  Paul Aisen, M.D., Professor of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego, has conducted therapeutic   research on Alzheimer’s disease for the past two decades. He is Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study, a consortium funded by the National Institute on Aging to develop assessment instruments and conduct clinical trials.

• Paul Burstow

  Paul was elected as Member of Parliament for Sutton & Cheam at the 1997 election and has held several front bench positions, including Shadow Spokesman for Health, Shadow Minister for London and most recently Shadow Chief Whip. Before being elected to Parliament Paul headed the Liberal Democrat’s Local Government Unit and served on Sutton Council for 16 years from 1986. Paul was educated at Glastonbury High School for Boys, Sutton, and Carshalton College, before attending South Bank Polytechnic, where he gained a business studies degree. Upon graduating, he worked as a buying assistant before becoming a research assistant at the London Borough of Hounslow.

• Carol Brayne

  Carol Brayne is a Professor of Public Health Medicine and Director of the Institute of Public Health at Cambridge University. She is a medically qualified epidemiologist and public health academic. Her main research area is longitudinal studies of older people following changes over time in cognition, dementia natural history and associated features with a public health perspective. She is lead PI in a group of the MRC CFA Study – which have informed and will continue to inform national policy and scientific understanding of dementia in whole populations.

• Bruno Bubois

  Bruno Dubois is currently Professor of Neurology at the Neurological Institute of the University Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, University Pierre & Marie Curie Paris6 (UPMC). He is Director of the “Institute for Memory and Alzheimer Disease” (IM2A) and of the Research INSERM Unit on “Cognition and Neuroimaging in Brain Diseases” at the ICM (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière) at the Salpêtrière Hospital. He is President of the Scientific Committee of France-Alzheimer and of IFRAD (International Fund Raising for Alzheimer’s disease), consultant for the Human Frontier Program and Expert of the French Agency of Drugs. He is a member of the European Alzheimer Disease Consortium (Therapeutics and Intervention Studies). He has published on anatomical and biochemical studies on the central cholinergic systems in rodents and humans; on cognitive neuropharmacology; and on neuropsychology in patients with dementia, with special reference to memory and executive functions. He has recently chaired the International Working Group on the “New criteria for Alzheimer’s disease” and a Task Force on the “New criteria for Parkinson’s disease dementia”. He is principal or co-investigator of a number of research programmes focusing on AD, MCI and dementia in Parkinson’s disease.

• Linda Buettner

  Linda L. Buettner, Professor University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is a Gerontologist and Recreational Therapist who specializes in therapeutic program design for older persons with cognitive impairments.  She is the 2010 recipient of the Barry Reisberg Non-Pharmacological Clinical and Research Award. Dr. Buettner is the author of Therapeutic Recreation in the Nursing Home and co-author of Dementia Practice Guidelines for Recreational Therapy.  Dr. Buettner’s program of research includes funding from the National Institute for Nursing Research and National Institute for Aging, National Institutes of Health, Retirement Research Foundation, and the Alzheimer's Association.

• Patricio Fuentes

  Dr. Fuentes is neurologist and Associate Professor at Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Unit, Hospital del Salvador and Geriatrics Section of the Clinical Hospital of University of Chile, in Santiago.  Scientific Advisor of Chilean Alzheimer´s Association and member of Dementia Workgroup Chilean Neurological Society. His clinical interests are focused on mild cognitive impairment and drug therapy of AD.

• Ryuta Kawashima

  Dr. Ryuta Kawashima is a Professor of the Tohoku University from 2011. His scientific interest is in functional brain mapping. He also has been paying his attention to return benefits of basic sciences to public, so that he has proposed systems for improvement of the prefrontal functions of humans.

• Miia Kivipelto

  Miia Kivipelto, MD, PhD is Professor in Clinical Geriatric Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet Alzheimer Disease Research Center (KI-ADRC) and Deputy Head of KI Aging Research Center in Stockholm, Sweden. She is also Research Director of Neuroepidemiology unit at University of Eastern Finland. She is combining research with clinical medicine working also as senior geriatrician at the Memory Clinic, Karolinska University Hospital. She has been working in several clinical trials concerning AD and is now Deputy Head of the Clinical Trials Unit. Dr. Kivipelto is the principal investigator in the large populations based ‘Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia’ (CAIDE) study’ and in ‘Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (FINGER)’. Dr. Kivipelto has several PhD and post doc students in her research group and she is involved in many international networks and scientific/steering committees. She got the Association of European Psychiatrists Prevention Award in Psychiatry 2007 for her work concerning modifiable risk factors for AD, Academy of Finland award for Social Impact 2009, and Junior Chamber International prize 2011.

• Martin Orrell

  Professor Martin Orrell, FRCPsych PhD, Professor of Ageing and Mental Health at University College London.  At North East London Foundation Trust, Prof Orrell works as an Honorary Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist and is Director of Research & Development. He is also Visiting Professor at City University. He is Chair of the Memory Services National Accreditation Panel (MSNAP). He leads the SHIELD research programme on psychosocial interventions for dementia care. He has published over 150 academic papers and is Editor of the journal Aging and Mental Health

• Fiona Phillips

  Campaigner, journalist, Mirror columnist and broadcaster, Fiona Phillips is an active Alzheimer's Society ambassador and has spoken out at numerous events about the key issues affecting people with dementia and their carers. Fiona speaks from first hand experience. Her mother fought Alzheimer's until her death in May 2006 and her father was diagnosed with the disease shortly afterwards.

• Sir Terry Pratchett

  Sir Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed author of the global bestselling Discworld series with over 75 million sales worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Sir Terry was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of dementia, in 2007.

• Martin Prince

  Professor Martin Prince heads the Centre for Public Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, which addresses mental disorders in the community, patterns of help-seeking, and health system responses. The Centre has a strong international focus and brings the higest quality epidemiological methods and a public health perspective to bear on improving care for people with mental disorder. A combination of epidemiological and health service research methods are used to identify opportunities for primary and secondary prevention, from population through to primary care.

• Glenn Rees

  Glenn Rees has worked at senior levels in the British and Australian Public Services. In Britain he worked as Private Secretary to senior Ministers, in the Cabinet Office and in Economic Departments. In Australia since 1976 he has worked in program and policy areas including Prime Minister and Cabinet, Employment and Training, Aged Care, Disabilities, Housing and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. He was Chair of the Nursing Homes and Hostels Review in 1986 and was involved in implementing the first wave of aged care reforms. He has been Chief Executive Officer of Alzheimer's Australia for 10 years during which time Dementia has been made a National Health Priority.

• Angela Rippon

  Broadcaster, journalist and presenter, Angela Rippon is an ambassador for Alzheimer's Society. A BBC newsreader for five years, Angela has worked in news and current affairs for over 40 years. She has been awarded the OBE for her services to broadcasting, charity and the arts. Angela has spoken of her experiences caring for her mother Edna who was diagnosed with dementia in 2004 and sadly died in 2009.

• Helga Rohra

  I was born 19th April 1953 in Romania, emigrated to Germany in 1972. University graduated for languages translator in five languages Lewy Body Dementia in 2008 active at National and International Conferences with speeches about Dementia and our fight for the rights of those affected.

• Louise Sutton

  Louise Sutton has credits on over 300 hours of primetime television drama. She has written storylines on Brookside, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and Coronation Street and has script edited on Grange Hill. Louise was involved in the developing, scripting and production of H2O – Just Add Water Series 1 & 2 and Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji on which she was also the additional dialogue writer for the movie cut-down. Louise has successfully developed ideas, pitches and treatments for a wide range of international broadcasters including ITV, BBC, Disney, ZDFE, Network Ten, ABC (AUS), Channel 9, Nickelodeon and Discovery.   Louise currently is the Assistant Producer on Coronation Street where she manages the award winning team of writers and runs the editorial department. She is also involved in all aspects of running Coronation Street, the nation’s favourite soap and week-on-week ratings winner. Alongside this, Louise has worked with various departments within ITV on projects such as: The Platts on Jeremy Kyle; Coronation Street Game for the Nintendo DS Lite; the “Romanian Holiday” DVD; and Coronation Street’s 50th anniversary, on and off screen.   During her time on Coronation Street, the show has been nominated for 2 BAFTAs and has won numerous awards including the National Television Award for Best Continuing Drama and the prestigious Writer’s Guild Award for Best Drama Series.