Prof. Suzanne Timmons qualified from UCC and trained in Ireland, the UK and the US. She is a geriatrician and works 50% clinically, in the acute hospital setting and in rehabilitation. She was the first Clinical Lead for Dementia for the Republic of Ireland, from 2017 to 2021. In UCC, she is the Interim Head of the Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine. Her academic commitments include being Programme Director for the MSc in Older Person Rehabilitation, since 2011, and the new MSc in Dementia, since 2018, as well as the supervision of research MSc and doctoral students. She has a keen interest in postgraduate interdisciplinary education and research. Her research interests focus on neurodegenerative disease in older people, particularly dementia and PD, spanning basic science translation, diagnostic tool validation, health service research (especially models of care), clinical trials, technology in rehab, exercise and risk reduction