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- Principal Research Fellow
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
- Faculty of Brain Sciences
I am a clinical neuropsychologist and scientist. I worked for 9 years in the Neurology Department at University Hospital Virgen del Rocio in Seville before moving to London in 2014 to join the UCL Dementia Research Centre as a clinical academic.
My research focuses on 1) the understanding of inter and intra- phenotype variability in neurodegenerative dementia, and 2) the development of effective cognitive and behavioural treatments to improve patient-centred outcomes.
Methodologically, I have the following expertise:
- Co-production
- Design, development and evaluation of assistive technologies
- Design, development and evaluation of complex interventions
- Qualitative methods
- Systematic reviews
- Cross-over design
- Single-case studies in cognitive rehabilitation
- Non-pharmacological RCT
- Structural imaging
Enterprise
I work with UCLB to create the spinout ReadClear: https://www.makingreadingreal.org/
This project has been funded by Zinc UKRI Healthy Aging Catalyst Award and UnLtd.
Covid-19
I am a co-PI in the NIHR-funded CICERO study, where I lead a cognitive rehabilitation intervention trial for people living with cognitive Covid.
Other research interests
I have led the translation, adaptation and current implementation of START in Spanish: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/mental-health-older-people/projects/start/downloads/start-spanish