Dr Janet Carter – Associate Professor Old Age Psychiatry, UCL and Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist at North East London NHS Trust

Dr Carter is a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry at UCL.  She runs a fast-track cognitive disorder clinic for under 65s with cognitive impairment, and a community mental health team in Havering.

She has published research on services for young onset dementia in the UK and was the chief investigator for a three-year project (The Angela Project) funded by the Alzheimer’s Society to improve diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for younger people living with dementia.

She leads the Young Dementia Network’s Diagnosis and post-diagnosis workstream.