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, Liaison and Psychiatrist, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Naheed Mukadam, Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London
Timothy Rittman, Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge
Matthew Jones, Consultant Neurologist, Salford Royal
Sponsored by: Eli Lilly
Vanessa Raymont, Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Ming Hung Hsu, Senior Research Fellow, The Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research (CIMTR), Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
Hilda Hayo, Chief Admiral Nurse and CEO, Dementia UK
TBC
Chaired by Ross Dunne, Consultant & Later life psychiatrist 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, Regus Professor of Ageing, Newcastle University
Day 2 - Thursday 26th February
Joanna Wardlaw, Professor of Applied Neuroimaging, University of Edinburgh and UK DRI
Dennis Chan, Principal Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
David Llewellyn, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Digital Health, University of Exeter
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, Professor of Practice, 39 Essex Chambers & 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; Director NIHR UK Dementia Trials Network; Head of Clinical Trials, Dementia Research Centre