Eimear MCGLINCHEY

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Ireland

Dr. Eimear McGlinchey is an Assistant Professor in Intellectual Disability and a faculty member at the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Her research is based at the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability, focusing dementia in people with Down syndrome.

With a background in Psychology, Dr. McGlinchey leads the PREVENT Dementia – DS project and is the site lead in Ireland for the Horizon 21 European Down syndrome Consortium. This project examines biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease in people with DS using a variety of methods, including neuroimaging, blood-based, and cognitive biomarkers. She works internationally to support people with Down syndrome and address the inequities faced by this population. Additionally, she is a co-applicant on the IDS-TILDA study, a longitudinal study on aging in people with an intellectual disability, and co-PI on a project to develop best practice guidelines for post-diagnostic dementia support for people with an intellectual disability.

For over a decade, Dr. McGlinchey has worked to ensure that people with an intellectual disability are included in the research process as advisors at all stages, and is now the site lead at TCD for the PPI Ignite project. In addition to her research, Dr. McGlinchey teaches within the undergraduate and postgraduate programs and supervises a range of students, from undergraduates to PhD candidates. She also coordinates several MSc courses in Ageing Health and Wellbeing in Intellectual Disability, Dementia, and Community Health at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at TCD. She has numerous publications and has disseminated widely through national and international conferences.
 

 

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