Dorina Cadar is a Senior Research Fellow in Dementia working with Professor Andrew Steptoe and an international multidisciplinary team to implement the Healthy Cognitive Ageing Project (HCAP) within the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. She is the Principal Investigator of the ESRC funded project Social determinants of dementia in the UK and Japan and the Alzheimer Society research grant Cognitive reserve and dementia incidence.

She 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).

Dorina 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 Associate Editor at BMC Psychiatry and Brain Sciences, member of Alzheimer’s Society, Royal Society for Medicine, Society for Social Medicine, British Society of Gerontology and Gerontological Society of America.