Professor Claudia Cooper

Background

Claudia leads the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health at Queen Mary University of London and is a practicing consultant old age psychiatrist with East London NHS Foundation Trust Memory Services.

Claudia leads the Alzheimer’s Society Centre of Excellence for Independence at home, developing interventions to support people living with dementia at home and the NIHR/ESRC APPLE-Tree programme (Active Prevention in People at risk of dementia: Lifestyle, bEhaviour change/Technology to REducE cognitive decline), investigating how lifestyle and behavioural change can prevent dementia in older people.

ACHA

Claudia is an ACHA co-applicant and key member of the original ACHA Application Team who designed and developed the Centre in 2021