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Dementia Research Conference 2022

Dementia research Conference 2022

Improving quality of life for people with dementia and families

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 10am-4:30pm
Thursday 24 February 2022, 10am-4:30pm

Online via Zoom

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About this event

Professor Naji Tabet, Director, Centre for Dementia Studies, will host talks from a range of experts in dementia and brain research across Kent, Surrey and Sussex. This is the second Dementia Research Conference from BSMS and the Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust. For 2022, the conference will take place over two days. Please note that the schedule and titles of talks are subject to change.

Delegates are welcome to attend on both or either days of the conference, for full or part days.

Please note that the schedule and titles of talks are subject to change.

CPD points for daily attendance.

For any queries about the event, please contact Linda Bennett at L.Bennett@bsms.ac.uk.

All talks from our 2021 conference is available to view online.

View our 2021 conference here >

Event schedule: day one

Wednesday 23 February 2022

Morning session:

10am: Setting the landscape: Professor Naji Tabet, Director of the Centre for Dementia Studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
10.15am: Welcome and introduction: Professor Hugo Critchley, Head of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
10.30am: Time for Dementia: The experience of families: Dr Stephanie Daley, Senior Lecturer in older people's Mental Health and Education, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
10.45am: Innovative ways of working with people with dementia and carers: Julia Fountain, Dementia Research Consultation Group
11.15am: Break
11.30am: Improving life with dementia through the ears and the eyes: Professor Iracema Leroi, Associate Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin and the Global Brain Health Institute
12.00pm: Alcohol and cognitive impairment: Professor Rafey Faruqui, Chair of South East England Division of Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych)
12.30pm: Language change as a marker of early-onset Dementia: Professor Peter Garrard, Professor of Neurology, Honorary Consultant Neurologist at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
1.00pm: Communication disorders in dementia: speech and language therapy practice and research: Dr Anna Volkmer, Senior Speech and Language Therapist/Lecturer, UCL
1.20pm: Practices, attitudes and outcomes of patients with memory problems but with no dementia diagnosis following memory clinic assessment: Dr Rebecca Atkinson, NIHR Research Fellow ARC KSS, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
1.30pm: Lunch

Afternoon session:

2pm: Afternoon welcome: Professor Naji Tabet, Director of the Centre for Dementia Studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
2.05pm: Why we need a culture of research: Dr Claire Woolcock, Interim Chief Medical Officer, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
2.20pm: The role of technology in dementia care: Professor Ramin Nilforooshan, Consultant Psychiatrist and Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey
2.45pm: Improving quality of life for people affected by dementia through research: Sophie Roberts, Senior Research Officer, Alzheimer’s Society
3pm: American perspective on state of play in AD trials/diagnosis/future treatment: Professor Marwan Noel Sabbagh, Professor of Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix USA
3.20pm: Break
3.30pm: Impact of Research and its implementation in health and social care: Kath Sykes, Implementation Manager - Living well with Dementia, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration KSS/Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network Associate faculty, Centre for Dementia studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
3.45pm: Delivering clinical research studies at the Dementia Research Unit: Natalie Portwine, Clinical Research Team Leader, Dementia/Registered Mental Health Nurse
4pm: Preferences of newly qualified healthcare professionals for working with people with dementia: Dr Molly Hebditch, Research Fellow, Centre for Dementia Studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
4.10pm: Lewy Body Dementia: Dr Jay Amin, Associate Professor in Psychiatry of Older Age (University of Southampton), Honorary Consultant in Older People's Mental Health (Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust)
4.30pm: Close

Please note that the schedule and titles of talks are subject to change.

Event schedule: day two

Thursday 24 February 2022

Theme 1: Morning session

10am: Setting the landscape – Day 2: Professor Naji Tabet, Director of the Centre for Dementia Studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
10.15am: Welcome and Introduction: Professor Malcolm Reed, Dean Brighton and Sussex Medical School
10.30am: Agitation in dementia – benefits and harms of therapeutic options: Professor Sube Banerjee, Executive Dean and Professor of Dementia in the Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth
10.50am: Risk factors and dementia: Dr Dorina Cadar, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Epidemiology and Dementia, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
11.05am: DETERMIND Update: Examining care provision post-pandemic: Dr Ben Hicks, DETERMIND Programme Manager, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
11.15am: Sleep and dementia, developing precision management - The TIMES programme: Professor Chris Fox, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, University of East Anglia and University of Exeter
11.45am: Break
11.55am: Dementia, sexuality and the law: Dr Oluwatoyin Sorinmade, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
12.15pm: Dementias in the lives of LGBT older adults: Professor Jaime Vera, Professor in HIV Medicine, Global Health and Infection department, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
12.35pm: Menopausal Hormone Therapy and the risk of dementia: Professor Tom Dening, Professor of dementia research, University of Nottingham
12.55pm: The work of the Consultation Group and studies where we've made a difference: Dementia Research Consultation Group
1.15pm: Lunch

Afternoon session

1.45pm: Afternoon welcome: Professor Naji Tabet, Director of the Centre for Dementia Studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
1.50pm: Clinical Imaging: Neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in dementia – evidence from iron-sensitive MRI and magnetic resonance spectroscopy: Professor Itamar Ronen, Chair in Medical Physics and Academic Director of CISC (neuroscience and imaging) Brighton and Sussex Medical School
2.10pm: AI for neurodegeneration - hype or happening?
Dr Timothy Rittman, Senior Clinical Research Associate, University of Cambridge
2.30pm: Imaging research in memory clinic - local perspective: Dr Gosia Raczek, Module Leader of MSc Dementia Studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
2.50pm: Break
3pm: Alzheimer’s Research UK: our 30 year journey:
Dr Jorge Gomez Magenti, Research Manager - Impact and Evaluation
3.15pm: Digital and Remote cognitive assessment at the intersection of primary and secondary care: Dr Chris Kalafatis, Chief Medical Officer, Cognetivity
3.45pm: INDIGO: Developing an Intervention for Depression in Underserved Geriatric populations: Dr Akin Ojagbemi, NIHR and Wellcome Global Health Partnership International Intermediate Fellow
3.55pm: Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries (STRiDE): The prevalence of dementia in Indonesia and South Africa: Dr Nicolas Farina, Senior Research Fellow for the Centre for Dementia Studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
4.05pm: Primary care perspective on dementia in the community - research undertaken: Professor Harm Van Marwikj, Head of Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
4.30pm: Reflections and close: Professor Naji Tabet and Dr Dorina Cadar, Centre for Dementia Studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Please note that the schedule and titles of talks are subject to change.

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Meet our speakers

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