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
Time: 12.30-1.00pm
Cost: Free
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 13th May
Time: 12.30-1.00pm
Cost: Free
Dr Santoro serves as the Director of Neuroimmunology and Demyelinating Disorders Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He is also an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr Santoro also has clinical research expertise in inflammation as it related to cerebrovascular disease and neurocognitive disorders such as Down syndrome regression syndrome, of which he has spoken on internationally.
Date: Tuesday 25th November
Time: 12.30-1.00pm
Cost: Free
Dr Phillips is currently a Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry working between RHC Glasgow and Glasgow Dental Hospital and School.
Date: Tuesday 28th October
Time: 12.30-1.00pm
Cost: Free
Dr Stewart has worked as a GP for over 30 years. A GP partner in Lothian until 2021 when he moved to Fife to work as a salaried GP and Generalist Clinical Mentor in ScotGEM in St Andrews.
Date: Tuesday 30th September
Time: 12.30-1.00pm
Cost: Free
Dr Smith is a Research Associate in the Social Science Research Institute at the University of Sheffield. Martina’s research focuses upon co-producing research to critically and creatively explore the experiences, lives and mental health of family carers of people with learning disabilities.
Date: Tuesday 26th August
Time: 12.30-1.00pm
Cost: Free
Dr Hunter is a Consultant in Paediatric and Fetal Cardiology at the Royal Hospital for Children (RHC), Glasgow. Lindsey has led the national fetal cardiology service in Scotland for over the last 11 years and continues to be passionate about fetal & paediatric cardiac echo teaching.
Date: Tuesday 29th July
Time: 12.30-1.00pm
Cost: Free
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 syndrome.
Date: Tuesday 24th June
Time: 12.30-1.00pm
Cost: Free
Davina Richardson is a Children’s Specialist Nurse, who has been working at Bladder & Bowel UK, a national charity under the umbrella of Disabled Living, for more than six years. Davina set up and then ran a community children’s continence service in the NHS for over 10 years. This provided assessment and treatment for children with constipation., soiling, day and night time wetting and delayed toilet training.
Date: Tuesday 27th May
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 29th April
Time: 12.30-1.00pm
Cost: Free