Sharon Bandeen is a community learning disability nurse from Angus, and has been working hard to implement annual health checks into angus for all people with a Learning disability.
Date: Tuesday 24th November
Time: 12.30-1.00pm
Cost: Free
Dr Gahleitner is a Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh.
Date: Tuesday 27th October
Dr Noemi Spinazzi is the director of the Down syndrome Center of Excellence at Children’s Specialized Hospital.
Date: Tuesday 29th September
Sheila Robson is a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with more than 20 years of experiance working clinically and in reasearch in Childhood Exceptional development and Additional Needs.
Date: Tuesday 25th August
Susan Began her career at DSRF as the head of speech-language pathologist from 2003 to 2019, and help develop the therapy, adults and summer programs during that time.
Date: Tuesday 28th July
Dr Peter Gillet was a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh, and retired from clinical work in 2025.
Date: Tuesday 30th June
Dr Gofffredina Spano is a senior Lecturer in Psychology at Kingston University London.
Date: Tuesday 26th May
Date: Tuesday 28th April
Prof. Nitin is Postgraduate Dean at NHS Education for Scotland (NES), overseeing postgraduate training in Primary Care, Mental Health, and Public Health.
Date: Tuesday 31st March
Dr Herrieven is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Paediatric Emergency Medicine, working at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. She has a special interest in access for healthcare for people with a learning disability and autistic people. She works with DSMIG and the DSA answering health queries raised by professionals and families regarding people with Down’s syndrome.
Date: Tuesday 27th January
Dr Shahid Zaman is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, Director of the CIDDRG (Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group) and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Cambridge. He is a part of ABC-DS (Alzheimer’s Biomarkers Consortium-Down Syndrome), a major clinical research programme funded by the National Institute of Health (USA). For over 15 years he has undertaken research in ageing and neurodegeneration in people with Down syndrome. He will present a summary of the tremendous increase in knowledge and our understanding of dementia in people with Down syndrome.
Date: Tuesday 25th March
Date: Tuesday 13th May