Meet the educators & class

Meet the educators

Throughout the course, we’ll hear from educators from a number of institutions leading the way in the area of brain health and sport & exercise:

1) Professor Craig Ritchie, Director of Brain Health Scotland and Professor of Psychiatry of Ageing at the University of Edinburgh – bio & Twitter

2) Professor Willie Stewart, Consultant Neuropathologist, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow & Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow – bio & Twitter

3) Dr Fiona Wilson, Chartered Physiotherapist and Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin – bio & Twitter

4) Professor Brian Lawlor, Deputy Executive Director of the Global Brain Health Institute & Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin – bio

5) Professor Aine Kelly, Neuroscientist & Physiologist, Trinity College Dublin – bio

6) Dr Stephanie Adams, Honorary Fellow in Brain Health and Sport, University of Edinburgh & Associate Sport & Exercise Lead, Brain Health Scotland – Twitter

7) Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali, Neuroscientist at University of Glasgow and Lecturer in Biomedical Science at Teesside University – Twitter

Say hello to the class

We’d love to know who is joining the course and why. Introduce yourself to your fellow learners in the comments below. Why not share a little bit about yourself? Where in the world you are? What made you interested in joining this course? What form of physical activity or sport do you enjoy most?

Once you’ve had a chance to say hello, let’s make a start. We begin by considering the concept of brain health.