Emma Vardy

Emma Vardy

Professor of Geriatric Medicine

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Biography

Professor Emma Vardy is a Consultant Geriatrician at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Greater Manchester, and Honorary Clinical Chair at the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester.  She graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Sheffield in 1998.  She trained in Geriatric medicine in Yorkshire and subsequently Greater Manchester.  She completed a PhD at the University of Leeds in 2007 looking at biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease and was a Walport Clinical lecturer in Greater Manchester working on PET brain imaging studies in dementia.  Professor Vardy has a number of clinical and academic interests including delirium, acute clinical deterioration of the older person, dementia, digital, quality improvement and health service delivery.  She is clinical frailty lead at the Northern Care Alliance and provides expert clinical advice to the Dementia United programme in Greater Manchester.  She led the Global digital Exemplar delirium and dementia programme at Salford Royal, resulting in blueprinting of the pathway by NHS digital.  She is co-chair for the British Geriatrics Society North West Regional Committee and is also a BGS Research and Academic and EDI committee member.  She is senior editor for the journal Age and Ageing.  Professor Vardy was admitted as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2016, subsequently Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh 2024, and is an alumni of the NHS digital academy.  She has spoken and published widely on topics around the care of older people, specifically delirium, and is a European Delirium Association Senior Committee member.  Professor Vardy is the NIHR Research Delivery Network North West England Specialty lead for Ageing Specialty and is deputy ageing theme lead for the Greater Manchester Applied Research Collaboration.   More recently her work has focussed on care of older people in the community and she is a UK Hospital at Home Society Committee member.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Education/Academic qualification

PGDip Digital Health leadership , Imperial College London

Award Date: 4 Aug 2020

External positions

North West England RDN Specialty Lead Ageing, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)

2025 → …

Academic and Research Committee Member, British Geriatrics Society

2024 → …

EDI Committee Member, British Geriatrics Society

2024 → …

Executive Committee Member, European Delirium Association

2024 → …

Grant Committee Expert Panellist, Vivensa Foundation

2024 → …

Senior Editor, Age and Ageing

2021 → …

Expert advisor to Dementia United, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership

2021 → …

Chair North West Committee, British Geriatrics Society

2020 → …

Greater Manchester CRN Ageing theme lead, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)

20202024

Chair Dementia and related disorders Special Interest Group, British Geriatrics Society

Aug 20192023

Board Member , European Delirium Association

20192024

Quality Improvement faculty member, Royal College of Physicians

20182023

Dementia Quality Standards Committee member, The National Institute for Health & Care Excellence

20182019

FRCP, Royal College of Physicians

2016 → …

Areas of expertise

  • R Medicine (General)
  • Delirium
  • Dementia
  • Quality Improvement
  • Digital health
  • Big Data
  • frailty

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