Our Clinical Advisory Group (CAG)

What the CAG does

The group supports Alzheimer’s Society by:

• Offering expert clinical advice to inform our evidence, policy and influencing activities.
• Ensuring our policy positions and recommendations are clinically informed, realistic and robust.
• Providing insight into challenges within clinical systems and what is needed to deliver innovation and change.
• Advising on how research can be better integrated into clinical practice and how people can be supported to take part in research.
• Helping identify opportunities for partnership working with clinical communities.
• Acting as clinical ambassadors for our work through media activity, thought leadership and wider advocacy. 

Membership

The group includes 14 practicing clinicians from across the three nations in which the Society works, ensuring representation from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Members represent a wide range of clinical fields, such as neurology, psychiatry, geriatrics, general practice, nursing and pharmacy.  

The CAG members are:

• Professor Adam Gordon (Chair)
  Professor of Care of Older People (Chair), QMUL
• Dr Chineze Ivenso
  Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, Aneurin Bevan UHB
• Dr Robert Barber
  Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer & Professor of Geriatric Medicine, CNTW NHS FT
• Professor Bernadette McGuinness
  Consultant Geriatrician, QUB / Belfast HSCT
• Kate Clark
  Clinical Business Manager, Older Persons Mental Health Service, Gateshead NHS FT
• Professor Ramin Nilforooshan
  Consultant Psychiatrist, Surrey and Borders Partnership FT
• Dr Deborah Gompertz 
  Complex Care GP and Clinical Lead, Somerset NHS FT
• Jayshree Sharma
  Lead Pharmacist for Frailty and Older People; Lecturer in Pharmacist Prescribing, NELFT NHS FT
• Dr Fatemeh Geranmayeh 
  Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Research Fellow, Imperial
• Dr Rhys Davies
  Consultant Neurologist; Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool
• Dr Mohan Bhat 
  Consultant Psychiatrist; Chair of Old Age Faculty (RCPsych), Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
• Dr Tomas Welsh 
  Consultant Geriatrician RUH Bath; Research and Medical Director at ReMind; Deputy Honorary Secretary at BGS; Honorary Senior Lecturer at Bristol
• Dr Angharad Symes 
  Clinical Lead Dementia and Older Adults Mental Health/Out of Area Placements
• Dr Jill Rasmussen 
  Fellow of Royal College of GPs, Psi-Napse, Clinical Lead for Dementia 

Membership is reviewed annually to ensure the group maintains a breadth of expertise. If you have any questions about the group, please contact our Secretariat [email protected]