Professor Craig Ritchie will take us through Brain Health Scotland's progress on dementia policy and future brain health strategy with the long-term aim of dementia prevention.
Presenter
Professor Craig Ritchie
Professor of the Psychiatry of Ageing, University of Edinburgh
Prof Craig Ritchie is the Professor of Psychiatry of Ageing at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Brain Health Scotland.
His academic interest is in the earliest stages of neurodegenerative disease and how they can be detected and managed to prevent dementia. He has run two international’s cohorts (EPAD and PREVENT) to generate the necessary data for this work. He has also been Chief Investigator on peer 30 clinical trials of drugs and biological agents to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
He has over 300 academic publications and led the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled: Understanding Brain Health: Preventing Dementia. He is also the Chair of the Scottish Dementia Research Consortium.