Cath Mummery appointed Acting Lead
for North Thames DeNDRoN
12 February 2010
Following Craig Ritchie's departure to take up the post as Research & Development Director at the West London Mental Health Trust, Dr Cath Mummery has been appointed as Acting Lead for North Thames DeNDRoN.
Dr Mummery is a consultant in General and Cognitive neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Northwick Park Hospital, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Neurology. She studied medicine at UCLH then trained in neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square and Kings College Hospital, London. She did her PhD as an MRC Clinical Training Fellow, studying the effects of focal neurodegenerative disease (FTD) on brain networks for semantic memory combining functional imaging and neuropsychology.
Dr Mummery is currently the clinical lead for cognitive disorders at the Dementia Research Centre.She is also active in teaching, being firm lead for undergraduate teaching, educational supervisor to the firm junior doctors and is a tutor on the MSc in clinical neurology and board member for the MSc/diploma in Clinical Neurology Committee.