Iracema is an Associate Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and a Consultant Psychiatrist in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin.

Iracema spent four years with the Neuropsychiatry and Memory Group at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore before moving to the UK in 2002. In 2017 she was appointed Professor of Psychiatry in Ageing and Dementia at the University of Manchester. She moved to Dublin in 2019 to join the Global Brain Health Institute (www.gbhi.org), a joint program between Trinity College Dublin and the University of California San Francisco.

Iracema has a particular interest in the neuropsychiatry of neurodegenerative movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease. She recently completed the world’s largest RCT of a non-pharmacological intervention for people with Lewy body dementias (LBDs; the INVEST project).

She developed and led the Greater Manchester clinical trials’ program for dementia for several years as principal investigator, and is Chief Investigator for EU-funded SENSE-Cog (www.sense-cog.eu), a five-year program involving 27 investigators researching the links among hearing, vision and cognitive impairment.

She is also building collaborations for dementia research in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India and is leading the ‘Research Roadmap for Dementia in Pakistan’ project, which is model for lower and middle-income countries (LMIC).