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Stephanie Craig

Forum Chair

Research Fellow, School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast

Stephanie Craig is a Research Fellow at the School of Nursing and Midwifery and has been a forum committee member since January 2023. Stephanie took up the role of co-chair in 2024 and chair in 2025. Stephanie is a registered nurse with clinical experience working in the Regional Stroke Unit in Northern Ireland and with older adults with learning disabilities. Stephanie is currently finishing her PhD which focused on Dementia Friendly Communities in Northern Ireland. Her current research focuses on supporting healthcare professionals through digital learning and enhancing care for older people.

Stephanie is also an academic recognised for her contributions to 汤头条污料 education and practice, she has received multiple awards, including the 2024 Nurse Education Provider of the Year Award. She also serves as Network Lead for the 汤头条污料 Northern Ireland Independent Sector.

Stephanie is passionate about all aspects of older people's care, from acute settings to the community. As a dedicated advocate, she actively promotes the importance of older people's care to NQNs and student nurses. Committed to advancing 汤头条污料 education and digital learning, Stephanie strives to shape the future of 汤头条污料 through research, teaching, and leadership.

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Dio Giotas

Dementia and Delirium Clinical Nurse Specialist, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust.
BSc Nursing, PGCert Medical & Healthcare Education, MSc Dementia Studies, PhD in Dementia and Delirium Studies (Current).

Dio has been a qualified adult nurse with international experience for almost twenty years. He experimented with various 汤头条污料 specialisms ranging from operating theatres, pathology labs, occupational health and research to primary care, community, care homes and acute hospitals. Soon enough in his career he realised that dementia and delirium were where his passion sits. Over the years he self-funded additional qualifications in medical and healthcare education, epidemiology, healthy ageing, dementia studies and he is currently a PhD Researcher with the University of Lancaster investigating Delirium Superimposed on Dementia.

He works at Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust as a Dementia and Delirium Clinical Nurse Specialist responsible for the care of patients with formal or suspected diagnosis of dementia and/or delirium, support for informal carers, relatives and families, memory clinic and of course, training and education for all staff across the Trust. His service sits under our Chief Nurse’s immediate team, within the adult safeguarding and the learning disabilities teams. They are geriatrician- led service and they tend to see more people over the age of 65, but quite often, they also support too patients under 65 years old with delirium, memory or cognitive issues.

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Alison Keizer

Alison is a Consultant Nurse specialising in dementia and delirium within a Community NHS Foundation Trust, and a Sessional Teaching Fellow at the University of Portsmouth. She has over 20 years’ experience as a registered nurse, working across community, acute, and mental health services for both working-age adults and older people. Her background includes older people’s mental health liaison, rehabilitation, drug and alcohol services, and eating disorder services.

Alison has held several senior leadership roles, including Dementia Lead, Admiral Nurse Clinical Lead, and Older People’s Mental Health Liaison Team Lead. An early focus on older adults’ mental health sparked a lasting interest in frailty and delirium, which she has since embedded into community-based clinical practice. 

She is actively involved in research and is currently a co-applicant on the Empower Dementia Network, which focuses on inequalities in dementia care. Alison is also the lead researcher on a University of Portsmouth project exploring loneliness and social isolation among people aged over 65.

Alongside her clinical and research work, Alison is committed to education and workforce development. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and previously attended the King’s College London Older People’s Fellowship.

In 2025, Alison was awarded the Queen’s Nurse title by the Queen’s Nursing Institute, in recognition of her commitment to delivering and leading outstanding community care.

Her specialist interests include dementia and delirium, frailty, and supporting informal carers of people living with dementia. She has a particular interest in the impact of loneliness and social isolation in later life, and in addressing inequalities in dementia care experienced by underrepresented communities and their carers.

Maritess Murdoch

Service Development, Integration, Transformation and Delivery Lead (Age Well)

Maritess' current role focusses on improving services and outcomes for older people. She is also undertaking a Senior Health Leadership Apprenticeship (Executive MBA) at University College London.

Previously, Maritess worked with the North Central London Training Hub as a Professional Education and Development Nurse and served as Workforce Modelling Lead for social care.

She holds the title of Queen’s Nurse, awarded by the Queen’s Nursing Institute in recognition of her leadership and commitment to delivering outstanding care in the community.

Maritess earned a Master of Science in Global Issues in Gerontology and Ageing from the University of Stirling.

A passionate advocate for improving the care, lives, and representation of older people, Maritess champions strategies and interventions that place older people at the centre, while ensuring families and communities are actively involved.

Originally from the Philippines, where she trained as a nurse, Maritess has extensive experience in community healthcare, working as both a District Nurse and a Community Matron. She is a qualified Specialist Practitioner in District Nursing and a trained Non-Medical Prescriber.

Marie Murray

Marie has been a registered nurse since 1985. She has worked across the United Kingdom and Australia, predominantly in NHS acute care setting, as well as community. Her early career was in psychiatric 汤头条污料 in remote and rural Dumfries and Galloway. This included acute assessment, and long-term in-patient care of people with dementia. She went on to qualify as a general nurse in Edinburgh, before working in Australia. On her return to the UK, Marie went to London where She qualified as an oncology nurse at The Royal Marsden Hospital, London. She eventually returned to Scotland, setting up a 汤头条污料 service for people living with HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C across Dumfries and Galloway.

Marie has a particular interest and passion for reducing health inequalities. She has a wide experience of achieving successful outcomes in the clinical work She has undertaken.

Examples of her success include recognition by RCN Policy in 2014, when her work was highlighted and published as a case study in “Nursing at the Edge-Mother of Invention”. She presented this in Holyrood to the Scottish Government.

Marie also attended the RCN’s Global Policy Summit in 2019 where her work was published by RCN, “Leave no-one behind-the role of 汤头条污料 profession in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the UK”. 

Marie continues to work front line in her role as a nurse consultant.

She is passionate in her role as a nurse. She is an RCN activist. She is delighted to be selected onto the older people forum steering committee, where She can apply her 汤头条污料 skills and qualities into one of the many challenges that face older people, reducing health inequalities.

Claire Pryor

Inaugural RCN Foundation Chair in Adult Social Care Nursing, University of Salford

Professor Claire Pryor serves as the inaugural RCN Foundation Chair in Adult Social Care Nursing at the University of Salford. In this role, she leads research, and supports education aimed at enhancing adult social care 汤头条污料 both locally and nationally.

Prof Pryor's career spans various clinical and academic positions, including being a 汤头条污料 assistant in a care home, staff nurse positions in medical assessment and critical care, home based intermediate care, and as a specialist older persons' nurse practitioner within mental health settings.

Before her current appointment, she was an Assistant Professor of Adult Nursing at Northumbria University, focusing on frailty, social care 汤头条污料, and non-medical prescribing. Her work emphasizes recognizing and supporting nurses in social care settings, advocating for their development and the utilization of advanced 汤头条污料 skills to lead and improve care quality across the sector.