Our team spans all relevant brain health stakeholder groups, including representatives from clinical, academic, and third-sector organisations. This cross-sectoral, cross-discipline, cross-institute group are an exemplar of the diversity that the ARC wishes to promote. Team members represent a key partner or champion a cross-cutting theme.
Leadership Team
Professor terry quinn
- ARC Director
- Professor of Cardiovascular Ageing at the University of Glasgow
- Honorary Consultant Physician
WENDY CHAMBERS
- Dementia Consultant at Alzheimer Scotland
PROfessor frank gunn-moore
- Creating Research Community theme lead
- Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at the University of St Andrews
MS FIONA CARTER
- Head of Development for Alzheimer Scotland
MR HUGH MASTERS
- Executive Lead for Brain Health Scotland
DR FIONA KERR
- Public Engagement and Outreach theme lead
- Lecturer in Molecular Pharmacology at Edinburgh Napier University
DR TOM RUSS
- Supporting Research theme lead
- Reader in Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh
- Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry for NHS Lothian
professor bettina platt
- Research Training theme lead
- Chair in Translational Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen
Prof louise ritchie
- Patient, Caregiver, and Public Involvement theme co-lead
- Psychologist and Reader in Dementia Research
ms carleen smith
- Policy Officer for Alzheimer Scotland
professor craig ritchie
- Industry Engagement theme lead
- Honorary Chair of Psychiatry of Ageing at the University of Edinburgh
- Founder and CEO of Scottish Brain Sciences
dr stina saunders
- Early Career theme lead
- Research Scientist at Linus Health and Postgraduate Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
professor debbie tolson
- Patient, Caregiver and Public Involvement theme co-lead
- Alzheimer Scotland Professor of Dementia (Nursing)
Core Team
mrs sheena mcgowan
- Brain Health Alliance, Project Manager
Ms millie mather
- Alliances for Research Challenges, Communications Officer
MS SAra BeneSovA
- Brain Health Alliance, Project Coordinator
ms Kalliopi mavromati
- Brain Health Alliance, Researcher
MS Angelina Kancheva
- Brain Health Alliance, Researcher
