Collectively we have been working on dementia for about 100 years
Charles Alessi
Charles Alessi is the Chief Clinical Officer for HIMSS International. HIMSS is a global voice, advisor and thought leader of health transformation through health information and technology with a unique breadth and depth of expertise and capabilities to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of health, healthcare and care outcomes.
As Chief Clinical Officer for HIMSS International, Alessi leads relationship-building efforts among HIMSS’s various international clinician-focused communities; furthering HIMSS's position as a thought leader in the health industry and supporting both the vision and understanding of information and technology’s roles in the advancement of health and care.
Before joining HIMSS in 2018, Alessi has acted in numerous external positions for governments and executive agencies on a national and international level. Alessi brings more than 25 years of experience in global healthcare policy and clinical practice to HIMSS. Most recently, he chaired the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC), has served as an adjunct research professor for Clinical Neurosciences at the Schulich School of Medicine for University of Western Ontario Canada, and as executive director of the Global International Care Delivery Alliance.
Alessi is also the senior advisor for Public Health England, leading national policy implementation, productive healthy aging and is currently contributing to the global World Health Organization guidelines for dementia risk reduction. Alessi has also contributed his expertise to multiple international publications such as the British Journal of General Practice, addressing topics such as health and social care contract and health policy. He has lectured and led keynote addresses for healthcare engagements taking place on every continent (except Antarctica).
Larry Chambers
Larry Chambers has authored 175 articles and books on, community prevention and control of cardiovascular disease among older adults, quality improvement in long-term care homes and innovative approaches for continuing professional development. International journals have published his work on design, measurement and evaluation of health programs such as organizational change to improve health charities collaboration with researchers to recruit persons to participate in dementia research. He has enhanced capacity of governmental and non-governmental partner agencies by connecting research and innovation projects to policy and strategies. His expertise also lies in assembling, managing and leading interdisciplinary research and innovation project teams involving clinicians, faculty and public health. Professor Chambers presently is Research Director of the Niagara Regional Campus, School of Medicine, McMaster University. He maintains appointments with the Department of Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University (Professor Emeritus); as well as with the Bruyère Research Institute; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa; Faculty of Health, York University; and, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. From 2013 to 2017, he was Scientific Advisor to the Alzheimer Society of Canada. Larry is a Fellow with the American College of Epidemiology, Honorary Fellow with the Faculty of Public Health of the United Kingdom and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Muir Gray
Muir Gray entered the Public Health Service by joining the City of Oxford Health Department in 1972 after qualifying in medicine in Glasgow, the city of his birth
The first phase of his professional career focused on disease prevention, for example on helping people stop smoking. He also developed a local, then national programme of work to promote health in old age, at a time before the implications of population ageing had been recognised. Based on work in Oxford he developed a number of national initiatives, particularly designed to prevent hypothermia, publishing a Fabian Society report on the relationship between housing and poverty and the excess winter deaths, many from hypothermia, that took place in the United Kingdom. He was appointed to the board of the Anchor Housing Association and helped develp their Staying Put campaignand
Then he developed all the screening programmes in the NHS, for pregnant women, children, adults and older people for example offering man aged sixty five screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm and, for both men and women, screening for colorectal cancer. He also developed services to bring knowledge to patients and professionals. Working on the principle that the delivery of clean clear knowledge was analogous to the provision of clean clear water he saw the organisation and delivery of knowledge as a public health service, for example developing NHS Choices www.nhs.uk, which now has over 40 million visits a month, and setting up the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford. During this period he was appointed as the Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS and was awarded both a CBE and later a Knighthood for services for the NHS. He is a Visiting Professor in Knowledge Management in the Nuffield Department of Surgery and a Visiting Professor in Primary Care Health Sciences. He is a part time consultant in public health in OUH NHS Trust. He set up charities to promote urban walking and an Oxford based Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
He is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals and published a series of How To Handbooks for example, How `to Get Better Value Healthcare, How To Build Healthcare Systems andHow To Create the Right Healthcare Culture.
His hobby is ageing and how to cope with it and he has published books for publish a book for people aged seventy called Sod 70 ! one for the younger decade calledSod60! This with Dr Claire Parker, and his book for people aged 40-60, titled Midlife, is appearing in January 2017. Other books in series on Sod Ageing areSod it, Eat Well, with Anita Bean and Sod Sitting, Get Moving with Diana Moran, the Green Goddess. For people of all ages Dr Gray’s Walking Cure summarises the evidence on this wonderful means of feeling well, reducing the risk of disease and minimising disability should disease strike.
Charles Alessi
Charles Alessi is the Chief Clinical Officer for HIMSS International. HIMSS is a global voice, advisor and thought leader of health transformation through health information and technology with a unique breadth and depth of expertise and capabilities to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of health, healthcare and care outcomes.
As Chief Clinical Officer for HIMSS International, Alessi leads relationship-building efforts among HIMSS’s various international clinician-focused communities; furthering HIMSS's position as a thought leader in the health industry and supporting both the vision and understanding of information and technology’s roles in the advancement of health and care.
Before joining HIMSS in 2018, Alessi has acted in numerous external positions for governments and executive agencies on a national and international level. Alessi brings more than 25 years of experience in global healthcare policy and clinical practice to HIMSS. Most recently, he chaired the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC), has served as an adjunct research professor for Clinical Neurosciences at the Schulich School of Medicine for University of Western Ontario Canada, and as executive director of the Global International Care Delivery Alliance.
Alessi is also the senior advisor for Public Health England, leading national policy implementation, productive healthy aging and is currently contributing to the global World Health Organization guidelines for dementia risk reduction. Alessi has also contributed his expertise to multiple international publications such as the British Journal of General Practice, addressing topics such as health and social care contract and health policy. He has lectured and led keynote addresses for healthcare engagements taking place on every continent (except Antarctica).
Larry Chambers
Larry Chambers has authored 175 articles and books on, community prevention and control of cardiovascular disease among older adults, quality improvement in long-term care homes and innovative approaches for continuing professional development. International journals have published his work on design, measurement and evaluation of health programs such as organizational change to improve health charities collaboration with researchers to recruit persons to participate in dementia research. He has enhanced capacity of governmental and non-governmental partner agencies by connecting research and innovation projects to policy and strategies. His expertise also lies in assembling, managing and leading interdisciplinary research and innovation project teams involving clinicians, faculty and public health. Professor Chambers presently is Research Director of the Niagara Regional Campus, School of Medicine, McMaster University. He maintains appointments with the Department of Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University (Professor Emeritus); as well as with the Bruyère Research Institute; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa; Faculty of Health, York University; and, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. From 2013 to 2017, he was Scientific Advisor to the Alzheimer Society of Canada. Larry is a Fellow with the American College of Epidemiology, Honorary Fellow with the Faculty of Public Health of the United Kingdom and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Muir Gray
Muir Gray entered the Public Health Service by joining the City of Oxford Health Department in 1972 after qualifying in medicine in Glasgow, the city of his birth
The first phase of his professional career focused on disease prevention, for example on helping people stop smoking. He also developed a local, then national programme of work to promote health in old age, at a time before the implications of population ageing had been recognised. Based on work in Oxford he developed a number of national initiatives, particularly designed to prevent hypothermia, publishing a Fabian Society report on the relationship between housing and poverty and the excess winter deaths, many from hypothermia, that took place in the United Kingdom. He was appointed to the board of the Anchor Housing Association and helped develp their Staying Put campaignand
Then he developed all the screening programmes in the NHS, for pregnant women, children, adults and older people for example offering man aged sixty five screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm and, for both men and women, screening for colorectal cancer. He also developed services to bring knowledge to patients and professionals. Working on the principle that the delivery of clean clear knowledge was analogous to the provision of clean clear water he saw the organisation and delivery of knowledge as a public health service, for example developing NHS Choices www.nhs.uk, which now has over 40 million visits a month, and setting up the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford. During this period he was appointed as the Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS and was awarded both a CBE and later a Knighthood for services for the NHS. He is a Visiting Professor in Knowledge Management in the Nuffield Department of Surgery and a Visiting Professor in Primary Care Health Sciences. He is a part time consultant in public health in OUH NHS Trust. He set up charities to promote urban walking and an Oxford based Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
He is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals and published a series of How To Handbooks for example, How `to Get Better Value Healthcare, How To Build Healthcare Systems andHow To Create the Right Healthcare Culture.
His hobby is ageing and how to cope with it and he has published books for publish a book for people aged seventy called Sod 70 ! one for the younger decade calledSod60! This with Dr Claire Parker, and his book for people aged 40-60, titled Midlife, is appearing in January 2017. Other books in series on Sod Ageing areSod it, Eat Well, with Anita Bean and Sod Sitting, Get Moving with Diana Moran, the Green Goddess. For people of all ages Dr Gray’s Walking Cure summarises the evidence on this wonderful means of feeling well, reducing the risk of disease and minimising disability should disease strike.
