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Brighton & Sussex Medical School

Meet the team

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Professor Sube Banerjee

Sube is an old age psychiatrist and an applied health researcher. He trained in medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and in psychiatry at Guy’s and the Maudsley hospitals and the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He has an MBA from the London Business School. His research focusses on improving quality of life and quality of care for those with dementia and the evaluation of new treatments and services. He also works nationally and internationally on strategy and policy development to improve care for people with dementia and older adults with complex needs.

He served as the Department of Health’s senior professional advisor on dementia leading the development of the National Dementia Strategy for England. Subsequently he worked with the World Health Organisation promoting dementia as a global priority in its Global Action Plan. He built and led effective modern services for older people’s mental health and dementia in London and has held, local, regional, and national clinical leadership roles. Clinically he practices as an old age psychiatrist leading a national memory service for people living with HIV.

Prior to joining the university of Nottingham in 2023 Sube was for four years, the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health at the University of Plymouth, leading its six health schools. Before that he was Associate Dean for Strategy and Deputy Dean at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Professor of Mental Health and Ageing at King’s College London. He has been awarded national and international awards for policy and research in dementia.  Sube is a Trustee of Alzheimer’s Society, a Non-Executive Director of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, and an elected member of the Executive of the Medical Schools Council.

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Dr Stephanie Daley

Dr Stephanie Daley is the programme and evaluation lead for the Time for Dementia and Time for Autism educational programmes. Stephanie completed her PhD at Kings College London in 2014. Stephanie is an Occupational Therapist by background. Stephanie’s research interests include quality of life and quality of care in dementia, qualitative research and participatory approaches to research.

S.Daley@bsms.ac.uk

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Denise Roden 

Denise Roden manages the administration for the Time for Dementia programme. Denise works closely with the Time for Dementia Programme Lead, Dr Stephanie Daley, to ensure the smooth running of the programme. This includes pairing the students with the participant families, keeping track of when students are out on visits and keeping in touch with the participant families. 

timefordementia@bsms.ac.uk

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Yvonne Feeney

Yvonne Feeney is the Time for Dementia Project Manager and supports the implementation and delivery of the programme in participating universities. Yvonne is an Adult Nurse and before joining the Time for Dementia team in 2016, worked in the social care setting managing care services for older adults. Having completed an MSc in Dementia Studies School in 2019, Yvonne is also currently undertaking a PhD at BSMS that aims to understand the development of empathy in healthcare students towards people with dementia. Yvonne’s research interests include improving quality of life for people with dementia, and the role education plays in improving understanding and attitudes toward the condition. 

y.feeney@bsms.ac.uk

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Dr Molly Hebditch 

Dr Molly Hebditch is a research fellow and works on the Mixed methods evaluation of the Time for Dementia programme. Molly's research interests include education in dementia and the improvement of quality of life and care practices for those affected by dementia. Her PhD explored medical and nursing student’s career preferences for working with people with dementia and how to increase interest in this field.

m.hebditch2@bsms.ac.uk

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Thabrez Khan

Thabrez Khan is the Time for Dementia manager at Alzheimer’s Society. Working alongside the wider team, Thabrez will support in the planning and roll out of the programme more widely to new universities to ensure deeper understanding and better person-centred care for those living with dementia. Before joining the Time for Dementia team, Thabrez has experience working for both the public and private sectors and brings a wealth of project management and business development experience to the role. 

thabrez.khan@alzheimers.org.uk

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Ro Charles

Ro Charles is Alzheimer’s Society Project Manager for the Time for Dementia programme. Ro is responsible for managing the family recruitment team. The team consist of a Senior Project Co-Ordinator and a team of Time for Dementia Officers. The team work to recruit and support families (people with dementia and their carers) to the Time for Dementia programme in sites across the South of England and to support the sites with delivering the programme. Ro has spent over 20 years working with people affected by dementia and has personal experience of taking part in the programme with her own family. 

timefordementia@alzheimers.org.uk

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Lauren Wonnacott

Lauren Wonnacott joined the team as Alzheimer’s Society Project Manager for the Time for Dementia programme in 2017. Since then, she has been responsible for the management and delivery of the programme and a team of Time for Dementia Officers who enrol and support people with dementia and their carers participating in the programme. Lauren has co-facilitated the expansion of Time for Dementia over the years and works closely with participating universities involved to ensure the smooth running of the Programme. Lauren has worked with people affected by dementia since 2010 across NHS, Social Care and Charity sector roles, in 2021 she completed her MSc in Dementia Studies at University of Sussex.

timefordementia@alzheimers.org.uk

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Rosie Mulgrue

Rosie Mulgrue supports the administration for the Time for Dementia and Time for Autism programmes working closely with the lead project administrators to ensure the programmes run efficiently and smoothly.

timefordementia@bsms.ac.uk

Time for Dementia team

 

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