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.