Piers is the Programme Director for the office of the National Director for Dementia Research at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and a Fellow of the NHS Innovation Accelerator Programme. His role at the NIHR is to support the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research to deliver on the NIHR’s commitments under the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia and the G8 Dementia Summit.
Piers has spent the past ten years leading improvements and innovation in how dementia research is developed and delivered in the NHS. He is currently leading is the establishment of Join Dementia Research, a new national service to increase opportunities for people to take part in research and make it easier and quicker for researchers to recruit people to their studies.
