Prof. Dag Årsland, MD
As Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Aging at King’s College London my research focuses on aging neuropsychiatry and neurodegenerative disorders. Throughout my career i have led multinational studies on Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease. I also serve as consultant and as Head of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Health at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Principal Investigator of the €21m EU-funded PREDICTOM consortium, which develops AI-driven early detection tools for Alzheimer’s disease. While fellow of European Society of Preventive Medicine, I have held professorships at Karolinska Institutet, the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen and University of Stavanger. With over 600 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals such as Lancet Neurology, Brain, and Alzheimer’s & Dementia, my research has shaped clinical guidelines and biomarker development and diagnostics and treatment and prevention of dementia.
Prof. Silke Kern, MD, PhD
Silke Kern, is Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg and Senior Consultant Neurologist and Psychiatrist at the Memory Clinic, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. She is also responsible for research and development at the Department of Neuropsychiatry at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and Vice Head of the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology at the University of Gothenburg.
Dr. Kern’s research focuses on understanding Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases using cerebrospinal fluid and blood biomarkers, as well as genetic, cognitive, and brain imaging biomarkers across the disease spectrum. She is leading several large clinical studies on Alzheimer’s disease and other cognitive diseases.
Prof. Anne Koivisto, MD, PhD, eMBA
Anne Koivisto is a specialist neurologist with special competence in memory disorders and medical education. She is a member of Finland’s National expert group on memory disorder care guidelines, a board member of the Nordic Network of Memory Disease Experts and serves on the European Academy of Neurology’s scientific panel. She chairs Finland’s National Medical Committee evaluating special competencies in memory disorders.
As Professor of Memory Disorders at the University of Helsinki and as Chief Neurologist Consultant in Memory disorders, she works at Helsinki University Hospital’s Memory Clinic and leads research groups in Helsinki and Kuopio. Her research focuses on developing biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and assessing the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions
Assoc. Prof. Kristian Steen Frederiksen, MD, PhD
Dr. Kristian Steen Frederiksen is a neurologist specialising in Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative disorders. He is a Senior Consultant Neurologist and Director of the Clinical Trial Unit at the Memory Clinic, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, and Associate Research Professor at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on biomarkers in Alzheimer’s and Lewy body dementia, digital biomarkers and early disease manifestations.
