Professor Lawlor is co-director of the Global Brain Health Institute, a collaborative leadership training program between Trinity College Dublin and University of California San Francisco that aims to tackle the societal impact of dementia on a global scale (www.gbhi.org). He is the Director of the Memory Clinic at St. James’s Hospital and Chairs the Irish National Dementia Awareness Campaign, Understand Together (www.understandtogether.ie) His research interests are in the early detection and diagnosis of dementia, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and in the development of new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.