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Dr Anna Moore

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Anna Moore is a trainee psychiatrist working in child and adolescent mental health services in Cambridge.  She is Senior Research Fellow in Child Psychiatry at the AFNCCF, and is currently leading the CLAHRC i-THRIVE Evaluation, which is evaluating the national implementation of i-THRIVE.  Anna has been awarded a national NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellowship to lead on scaling up i-THRIVE.

She is currently completing a health services research PhD focusing on mental health crisis care pathways at UCL, and is a research fellow at Cambridge.  Prior to this, Anna was Director of Mental Health at UCL Partners and the NHS Medical Director’s National Clinical Fellow to Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, working as part of the NHS Outcomes Framework team at Department of Health.  Before taking up medicine, Anna was an accountant.

“We don’t do dementia” identifying barriers to help-seeking for memory problems among Black African and Caribbean British communities.

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CLAHRC researchers have heard first-hand perceptions and beliefs among Black adults that prevent them from approaching their GP when they have concerns about memory problems – an early indicator of dementia.

Focus groups and interviews revealed five main beliefs and perceptions preventing people’s seeking help for dementia:
• Forgetfulness is not indicative of dementia
• Dementia is not an illness affecting Black communities
• Memory problems are not important enough to seek medical help
• Fear of lifestyle changes
• Confidentiality, privacy and family duty

The study comprised semi-structured focus – groups and interviews, recruiting 50 participants across a range of age groups and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Dr Michelle Eskinazi

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Dr Michelle Eskinazi works as a research assistant for Camden and Islington NHS trust and the UCL Department of Psychiatry, where she is also currently a part-time master’s student on the MSC in Mental Health Sciences Research. Her research interests include digital psychiatry, social and cultural determinants of mental health and perinatal psychiatry. She is due to start core psychiatry training in August 2017 while continuing to pursue her research interests at UCL and completing her MSC.