Meet the Experts

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Prof. Philip Scheltens

Professor Scheltens is a Consultant Neurologist, Professor of Cognitive Neurology and Director of the Alzheimer Center at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. In 1992, Professor Scheltens developed the visual rating scale technique on which this project is based. The rating scale has since been used in over 100 research studies and is also included in research guidelines for the diagnosis of dementia.

Prof. Nick Fox

Professor Fox is a Consultant Neurologist and Professor of Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Director of the Dementia Research Centre, University College London. Professor Fox has pioneered techniques to automatically measure cerebral atrophy (brain shrinkage) from MRI scans, which are now used as outcome measures in clinical trials.

Prof. Frederik Barkhof

Professor Barkhof is a Consultant Neuro-Radiologist, Professor of Neuroradiology and Scientific Director of the Image Analysis Centre at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. Professor Barkhof is a world-leading expert in diagnostic neuroimaging in dementia. He also helped to develop the visual rating scale technique on which this project is based.

Dr Jonathan Schott

Dr Schott is a Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Reader in Clinical Neurology at the Dementia Research Centre, University College London. Dr Schott has worked extensively in the development and application of imaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in the degenerative dementias.

Prof. John O'Brien

Professor O'Brien is a Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Professor O'Brien is also Associate Director and National Dementia Lead for the Dementias and Neurodegenerative Disease Research Network (DeNDRoN), through which most clinical studies in dementia are carried out.

Dr Giorgio Fumagalli

Dr Fumagalli is a Neurology registrar in the Department of Neurological Sciences at the University of Milan in Italy. While working as a visiting research associate at the Dementia Research Centre in London, he developed a new visual rating scale to help diagnose frontotemporal dementia.