Meet The Team

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We value the lived experience of those personally affected by Lewy body dementia and reflect through our Board of Trustees and Ambassadors.

We do not have a central office base, nor a large team of staff, and we do not receive any government funding. We keep our running costs as low as possible to ensure the vast majority of donations are used to fund vital research.

Chair

Ashley Bayston

Trustees

Ashley Bayston
Dr Lynne Corner
Carol Bewick
Dr Liz Bewley

CEO

Jacqueline Cannon

Patron

Robert Rinder MBE

Ambassadors

Baroness Dianne Hayter

Christopher Biggins

Conor McGinn

Ken Clasper

Lesley Magee

Chris Leek

Chris Maddocks

Vicky Hands

Kim Robinson

Karen Young

Sylvia White

Mark Oakley

Specialist Advisory Committee

Our multi-disciplinary team of health and social care professionals reviews grant applications, advises on our workplan
and provides expert input on specific pieces of work.

Prof Paul Francis

Professor of Neurochemistry, University of Exeter and Kings College London

Rachel Thompson

Consultant Admiral Nurse for Lewy body dementia,
Dementia UK and The Lewy body Society

Dr Jay Amin

Associate Professor in Psychiatry of Older Age (University of Southampton),

Honorary Consultant in Older People’s Mental Health (Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust)

Dr Paul Donaghy

Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Newcastle University

Dr Daniel Erskine

Alzheimer’s Research UK Senior Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Neurodegenerative Pathology

Anne Child MBE

Pharmacist and Dementia Specialist Lead at Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution

Dr Rohan Bhome

Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow, Institute of Neurology, University College London

Dr Leonidas Chouliaras

Assistant Professor in Old Age Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of Cambridge

Dr Greg Elder

Assistant Professor in Psychology
Associate Director, Northumbria Sleep Research
Department of Psychology
Northumbria University, Newcastle

Dr Clarissa Giebel

Senior Research Fellow & Older Adult Subtheme Lead ARC NWC
Lead of the NWC Living Lab in Ageing & Dementia
The University of Liverpool

Dr Joe Kane

Clinical Lecturer, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Queen’s University Belfast

Dr David Koss

Lecturer (Teaching and Research), School of Medicine, University of Dundee

Vicky Roberts

Lived Experience member

Dr Anto Praveen Rajkumar Rajamani

Clinical associate professor in Old Age Psychiatry,
Academic Programme Director for Psychiatry,
Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham,

Dr Catherine Talbot

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Science & Technology, Bournemouth University

Professor Rimona Weil

Dementia Research Centre, University College London