Dementias 2026 Programme
Dementias 2026 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 2026 programme promises specialist-led talks on:
Day 1 - Wednesday 25th February
Annabel Price, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
Naheed Mukadam, Professor of Psychiatry & Principal Research Fellow, Mental Health of Older People, University College London
Timothy Rittman, Senior Clinical Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Matthew Jones, Consultant Neurologist, Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences
Sponsored by: Eli Lilly
Vanessa Raymont, Associate Professor, University of Oxford and Dementias Platform UK
Speaker TBC
Hilda Hayo, Chief Admiral Nurse and CEO, Dementia UK
TBC
Chaired by Ross Dunne, Later life psychiatrist and dementia specialist, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH)
Jeremy Isaacs, National Clinical Director for Dementia and Older People's Mental Health, NHS England
TBC
Professor Dame Louise Robinson, Academic GP and Professor of Primary Care and Ageing, Newcastle University
Day 2 - Thursday 26th February
Joanna Wardlaw, Chair of Applied Neuroimaging; Head of Neuroimaging Sciences and Edinburgh Imaging; Row Fogo Centre Director; University of Edinburgh
Dennis Chan, Principal Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
Speaker TBC
Anya Topiwala, Senior Clinical Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Catherine Evans, Professor of Palliative Care, Director of the Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London
- A Legal Perspective
Alex Ruck Keene, Barrister, writer and educator, 39 Essex Chambers & Visiting Professor at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London
- A Clinical Perspective
James Warner, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University College London
Judith Harrison, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, Newcastle University
Ben Underwood, Assistant Professor in Applied and Translational Old Age Psychiatry & Honorary Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, University of Cambridge
Professor Catherine Mummery, Professor of Neurology, Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, University College London