Dementias 2025 Programme

Dementias 2025 is a two-day conference highlighting the key challenges, advances and best practice in the world of dementia care. 

Curated by conference chairs John O'Brien and Alistair Burns, the Dementias 2025 programme promises specialist-led talks on:

Day 1 - Thursday 6th February

08:00
- 09:00
Registration and refreshments
09:00
- 09:05
Welcome and introduction
09:05
- 09:35
Legal and ethical issues associated with assisted dying

Julian Hughes, RICE Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Bristol University and Honorary Consultant at the Royal United Hospitals in Bath

09:35
- 10:05
Dementia prevention

Prof. Craig Ritchie, Founder and CEO of Scottish Brain Sciences, Honorary chair of Psychiatry of Ageing and Director of the Centre for Dementia Prevention at the University of Edinburgh

10:05
- 10:35
Updates in genetic testing

Timothy Rittman, Senior Clinical Research Associate and Honorary Neurology Consultant, University of Cambridge

10:35
- 11:05
Break - refreshments and exhibition viewing
11:05
- 11:35
Uncommon dementias

Matthew Jones, Consultant Neurologist, Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences

11:35
- 12:15
Potential NHS treatment pathway for an oral treatment for early AD which combines disease-modifying and symptomatic activities

Prof. Claude Wischik, CEO of TauRx

Supported by TauRx

12:15
- 12:45
Blood biomarkers for diagnosing dementia

Vanessa Raymont, Associate Professor, University of Oxford and Dementias Platform UK

12:45
- 13:45
Lunch and poster presentations
13:45
- 14:15
Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) and other non-pharmacological approaches

Dr. Gloria Wong, Associate Professor at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading

14:15
- 14:45
Supporting families affected by dementia

Hilda Hayo, Chief Admiral Nurse and CEO, Dementia UK

14:45
- 15:05
The Disease Modifying Era for Alzheimer's Disease: Implementation of Anti-Amyloid Therapy in Clinical Practice

Armen J Moughamian, MD PhD, Medical Director of the Ray Dolby Brain Health Center and Vice-Chair of Neuroscience, California Pacific Medical Center

Supported by Life Molecular Imaging

15:05
- 15:55
Case studies

Chaired by Ross Dunne, Later life psychiatrist and dementia specialist, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH)

15:55
- 16:25
Break
16:25
- 16:55
The future of dementia care

Jeremy Isaacs, National Clinical Director for Dementia and Older People's Mental Health, NHS England

16:55
- 17:15
Implementing CSF biomarkers locally

Dr Ross Dunne, Later life psychiatrist and dementia specialist, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH)

Kyle Buckley, Senior Biomedical Scientist in the Directorate of Clinical Biochemistry, Manchester Foundation Trust

Supported by Roche

17:15
- 17:45
Primary care and dementia

Professor Dame Louise Robinson, Academic GP and Professor of Primary Care and Ageing, Newcastle University

17:45
- 17:55
Summary and close of day 1
17:55
- 18:55
Networking Reception

Day 2 - Friday 7th February

08:45
- 09:20
Registration and refreshments
09:20
- 09:50
Frontotemporal dementia

James Rowe, Professor of Cognitive Neurology and Director of Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders, University of Cambridge


09:50
- 10:20
What you need to know about Parkinson's disease

Dr. Robin Fackrell, Consultant physician & specialist in Parkinson's disease & related disorders, Royal United Hospital, Bath

10:20
- 10:40
Dementia diagnosis: driving innovation and delivering hope

Hilary Evans-Newton, Chief Executive of Alzheimer’s Research UK

Supported by Alzheimer's Research UK

10:40
- 11:10
Hearing and vision loss and dementia

 Iracema Leroi, Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin and Global Brain Health Institute 

11:10
- 11:40
Break
11:40
- 12:20
Diet and dementia

Professor Emma Stevenson, Head of School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences, University of Newcastle

12:20
- 13:00
Driving and dementia

Paul Donaghy, MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow and Honorary Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, Newcastle University and Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

13:00
- 14:15
Lunch and poster presentations
14:15
- 14:45
Lewy body dementia

Professor John-Paul Taylor, Professor of Translational Dementia Research, Newcastle University

14:45
- 15:25
Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia

Dr. Ben Underwood, Assistant Professor of Applied and Translational Old Age Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

15:25
- 15:55
Emerging therapies in Alzheimer's disease

Professor Catherine Mummery, Professor of Neurology, Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, University College London

15:55
- 16:00
Poster presentations results and prize giving
16:05
- 16:10
Closing comments and end of conference