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Professor Liz Sampson
Professor Liz Sampson leads the Centre for Dementia Palliative Care Research and is an honorary consultant in old age liaison psychiatry at North Middlesex University Hospital for Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust. Her research focusses on key symptoms i.e. pain and delirium and the care settings (acute hospitals) and care homes where many people with dementia will be towards the end of life. Liz is the Principal Investigator for the ESRC/NIHR Empowering Better End of life Dementia Care (EMBED-Care) programme grant. Liz trained at Birmingham University Medical School and completed her MD at the Institute of Neurology and her Masters in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr Kanthee Anantapong
Dr Kanthee Anantapong is a PhD student at UCL Centre for Dementia Palliative Care Research. He is also a psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. His PhD project aims to develop a decision aid for family carers and practitioners regarding nutrition and hydration for people with severe dementia admitted to acute hospitals. Kanthee completed his Medical Degree, residency training in Psychiatry and one-year course in Epidemiology at Prince of Songkla University. He also completed his Master in Gerontology at King’s College London. His interests are dementia, frailty and palliative care research.
Dr Yehudit Bauernfreund
Yehudit is an Academic Clinical Fellow in the MCPCRD at UCL and junior doctor training in psychiatry. Yehudit’s research focuses on dementia and delirium in emergency and acute settings. She did her undergraduate studies at Cambridge University and UCL. She completed the academic foundation doctor’s programme at the Centre for Ageing Population Studies in UCL, where her research focused on non-pharmacological treatments for depression and anxiety in frail older adults.
Dr Bridget Candy
Bridget Candy is a principal research fellow. Bridget’s research focusses on the generation of systematic reviews that are both rigorous and critical. Bridget works on a broad range of topics in palliative care. This includes currently; updating a Cochrane review on feeding in severe dementia and a meta-review of integrated palliative dementia care. In her PhD at UCL she sought to identify active intervention components by using novel review methods to link trial data with what patient’s want. In recognition of her work she was awarded in 2016 pos-doc researcher of the year by the European Association of Palliative Care.
Justin Chan
Justin Chan is a 2nd year PhD student at the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department . His PhD project is exploring the use of technology in monitoring awareness in people with severe dementia. Justin is also involved in the DeCoDe-H project, which aims to promote comfort and decrease distress in people with dementia whom are in acute hospitals. Justin received his BA and MPhil degrees in psychology at the University of Cambridge before pursuing a MSc in dementia studies at the University College London.
Dr Ping-Jen Chen
Dr Ping-Jen Chen MD FRCP Edin is studying for his PhD with the MCPCRD and is a consultant geriatrician, palliative medicine specialist and assistant professor at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. He is the deputy secretary-general of the Taiwan Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, and associate editor for BMC Palliative Care. His researches focus on clinical epidemiology, healthcare utilization, home healthcare and palliative care for people with dementia. Ping-Jen graduated from Kaohsiung Medical University and finished specialists training in Taipei Veterans General Hospital. He also trained in the Stroke Prevention Research Unit University of Oxford as a visiting fellow in 2010.
Sophie Crawley
Sophie Crawley is a Research Assistant and part time PhD student currently working on Empowering Better End of life Dementia Care (EMBED-Care) and Experience Loss and Planning Ahead Study (ELPAS). Sophie completed her BSc in Psychology at Loughborough University.
Dr Nathan Davies
Dr Nathan Davies is a Senior Research Fellow and an Alzheimer’s Society Junior Fellow working across the Research department of Primary Care and Population Health and MCPCRD. His work focusses on decision-making and decision support tools for people with dementia, family carers and professionals. His work on rules-of-thumb to guide making difficult decsions has been implemented across primary and secondary care in the NHS. Nathan completed a BSc in Psychology at the University of Exeter and an MSc at Swansea University before completing his PhD at UCL. He won the 2019 Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Research leaders Award for outstanding contribution to dementia Research.
Dr Anna Buylova Gola
Dr Anna Buylova Gola is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics. Her research focusses on evaluation of treatments and services, with particular emphasis on measuring effects and costs of palliative care in complex settings, incorporating carer, family and wider community effects of palliative care and equity in end-of-life experience and access. Anna is currently working on the ESRC/NIHR Empowering Better End of life Dementia Care (EMBED-Care) programme and supports other research projects. Anna has an MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Chicago, an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University and a PhD from Imperial College London.
