Committee members
The DNNI is headed by a cross institutional and inter-disciplinary management committee representing each of the key research domains, namely, basic, clinical, social/economic policy and connected health research.
Management committee
Chair: Professor Brian Lawlor
Conolly Norman Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Consultant Psychiatrist at St James’s Hospital, Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at M.I.R.A., St James’s Hospital, Clinical Director of Psychiatry, St James’s Hospital.
Dr. Cora O' Neill
Director of Cork NeuroScience Centre, Vice-Head School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Senior Lecturer, Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Alzheimers Disease Research Lab, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork.
Professor Eamon O' Shea
Personal Professor, School of Business & Economics, Irish Centre For Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Prof. Catherine Blake
Senior lecturer and Deputy Head of UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science.
Members
Professor Orla Hardiman
Professor / Head of Academic Neurology Trinity College Dublin, Consultant Neurologist Beaumont Hospital.
Professor Rose Anne Kenny
Head of the academic Department of Medical Gerontology, Director of the Falls and Blackout Unit at St. James's Hospital, Director of the Centre for Successful Ageing at St. James Hospital.
Professor Michael Rowan
Professor of Neuropharmacology, Trinity Institute of Neuroscience , Trinity College Dublin
Professor Suzanne Cahill
Director Dementia Services Information and Development Centre's (DSIDC) St. James Hospital, Associate Professor, School of Social Work & Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin
Dr. Suzanne Timmons
Geriatrician and senior lecturer in the Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation in UCC.
Professor Kate Irving
Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, Department of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University.
Professor Jochen Prehn
3U-COEN, Director Centre for Systems Medicine & Professor of Physiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Professor David Finn
Director of the Galway Neuroscience Centre and NUI Galway’s Centre of Excellence in Neurodegeneration (CoEN); Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Co-Director of the Centre for Pain Research, NUI Galway.
Dr. Keith Murphy
Head of School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Head of Neurotherapeutics Research Group, University College Dublin.
Dr. Eilís Dowd
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, NUI Galway, and President of the Network for European CNS Transplantation & Restoration (NECTAR).
Associate member
Dr. Bernadette Rock
Policy and Research Manager, The Alzheimer Society of Ireland
Scientific co-ordinator
Carol Rogan
The network is co-ordinated on a day-to day basis by Carol Rogan, Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
