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Rosário Zincke dos Reis is a lawyer since 1987, specially dedicated to Legal Rights of People with Incapacity, guardianship and many other legal issues related to people with dementia. Rosario is a member of Alzheimer Europe Board since 2008, being,…

Päivi Topo, PhD is a medical sociologist and social gerontologist. Her research interests concern physical and psychosocial health and social care environments, wellbeing of people with dementia, technology and ethics. Päivi has been an advisory member of national dementia plan group…

Martin Rossor is Professor of Clinical Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery London and the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research. Martin established a specialist cognitive disorders clinic which acts as a tertiary referral service for young…

Jennie Popay is Professor of Sociology and Public Health at the Institute for Health Research, University of Lancaster, UK. Jennie’s research interests include social and gender inequalities in health, the sociology of knowledge, public/community engagement in health decision making and…

Florence Pasquier, M.D., Ph.D. (in cognitive neuropsychology) is Professor of Neurology in Lille university Hospital with over 30 years’ experience of running a memory clinic in Lille, France, offering knowledge, best care and technology to all, not just university hospitals.…

Dr. Derick Mitchell is the Chief Executive of IPPOSI – the Irish Platform for Patient Organisations, Science & Industry.  IPPOSI is a patient-led organisation that works with patients, government, industry, science and academia to put patients at the heart of…

Prof. Mogens Hørder has been director and chief consultant at the Department of Clinical Bio-chemistry, Clinical Pharmacology, and Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital and has been Dean at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark. Mogens has also…

Simon Denegri is National Director for Patients and the Public at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and Chair of INVOLVE – the national advisory group for the promotion and support of public involvement in research funded by NIHR.…

Lily Cappeletti is the Associate Director, Research Partnerships for the Michael J. Fox Foundation. In her current role, Lily is responsible for engaging members of the Parkinson’s Disease community in clinical research and leads the strategic development and expansion of…

Marco Blom, MSc is the Scientific Director Alzheimer Nederland and is also a Board Member of the Delta Plan Dementia (National Program in Netherlands). Marco has experience in the Netherlands with the involvement of people with dementia and carers in…

Scientific Representative of Sanofi. Dr. Thomas Rooney is Head of Translational Research for Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Aging Therapeutic Strategic Unit at Sanofi.  Dr. Rooney received his BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Glasgow, UK (1984) and his PhD…

Scientific Representative of Alzheimer Research UK. Dr Eric Karran is a molecular biochemist by training, with a particular interest in enzymology and proteinases.  He has spent most of his career in the pharmaceutical industry, leading and managing multi-disciplinary drug discovery…

Scientific Representative of Alzheimer Europe. Charles Scerri received his PhD degree in 2004 from the University of Dundee in Scotland where he studied the involvement of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in Alzheimer’s disease. He is currently a senior academic and group…

Scientific Representative of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Brian K. Fiske, PhD, is Vice President of Research Programs at The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. In this role, he manages a team of research professionals…

  Professor Myrra Vernooij-Dassen has been involved for many years in psychosocial dementia research. She has been trained as medical sociologist and was director of the Radboud Alzheimer Centre. She is affiliated to the Scientific Institute of Quality of Healthcare…

Stefano F. Cappa received his M.D. at the University of Milano, in which he completed his neurology training. He has held assistant professor and associate professor positions in Neurology and Neurological Rehabilitation at the University of Brescia. Since 1999 he…

Professor Bengt Winblad, MD, PhD has been involved in the field of dementia research for many years. He became MD 1971 and took his PhD in 1975 at the University of Umeå, Sweden, where he became a Docent in 1977…

Dr Philip Scheltens studied at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, gaining his MD in 1984, and PhD (magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer’s disease) in 1993. Clinical residencies in neurosurgery at the Municipal Hospital Slotervaart, and at the Vrije Universiteit Medical…

Specialist in Clinical Neurology and Preventive Medicine & Public Health, Jesús de Pedro Cuesta holds Spanish and Swedish citizenship and a Spanish and Swedish board-certificates in neurology. He was formally trained at the Karolinska Institute in social medicine and obtained…

Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy and Co-Director of LSE Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics. He is also Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Centre for the Economics of Mental Health at…

Professor John Hardy is a geneticist and molecular biologist whose research interests focus on neurological disease. Dr. Hardy received his B.Sc. (Hons) degree from the University of Leeds, UK (1976) and his Ph.D. from Imperial College, London, UK where he…

SAB Chairperson. Thomas Gasser is a Professor of Neurology and Director of the Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Center…

Bruno Dubois is currently Professor of Neurology at the Neurological Institute of the Salpétrière University Hospital at Paris, University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6. He is Director of the Behavioural Neurology Department and of the Dementia Research Center at…