Dorina Cadar is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Dementia at UCL and Associate Professor in Cognitive Epidemiology and Dementia at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She is the Principal Investigator of the Alzheimer Society grant Cognitive reserve and dementia incidence and the ESRC-funded project Social determinants of dementia in the UK and Japan. Previously, Dorina has worked with Professor Andrew Steptoe and a multidisciplinary team to implement the Healthy Cognitive Ageing Project (HCAP) within the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

She is the Comms Officer of the Society of Social Medicine (SSM), Co-chair of the UCL Early Career Network and founder of the Public Engagement Project “Use it, don’t lose it!” She is an Associate Editor at BMC Psychiatry and Brain Sciences, member of the Alzheimer’s Society, Royal Society for Medicine, Society for Social Medicine, British Society of Gerontology and Gerontological Society of America.

Dorina graduated with a PhD in Cognitive Epidemiology from University College London (2013), a Postgraduate Certificate (Distinction) in Cognitive Ageing Research Methods from University of Edinburgh (2013), an MSc in Clinical Neuroscience from Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London (2009) and a BSc in Psychology (Hons) from Birkbeck College, University of London (2008).