Miia Kivipelto

Miia Kivipelto, MD, PhD, is Professor (part time) of Neuroepidemiology and Head of Ageing and Epidemiology (AGE) Research Unit, School of Public Health at Imperial College London. She is also professor of Clinical Geriatrics at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Center for Alzheimer Research, and senior geriatrician and Director for Research & Development of Theme Ageing at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Prof Kivipelto's frontline research findings have been published in leading journals (320+ publications, H-index 75) and she has received numerous prestigious national and international awards. She is often invited to leading global dementia and medical conferences and task forces, including the G8 Dementia Summit, OECD Mapping for big data, WHO ministerial meeting in Global actions against dementia and WHO dementia risk reduction guidelines working group, among others. Her involvement with the UK DRI will link the Institute further to the global neuroepidemiological network in AD and dementia.