Katherine Walesby.

Medical/Geriatric Registrar Clinical Research Fellow @AlzScotDRC PhD candidate #dementia #epidemiology #bigdata #meded;Mum 2child with #raredisease;Views my own

[Katherine Walesby. @kewdoc]

Great to have been able to internationally collaborate on this #dementia research. A first step looking at National #dementia prevalence within #NewZealand using the NZ IDI #data. @EdinburghUni @AucklandUni @AlzScotDRC @djexeter https://t.co/Nlfpjcdu2S

[Andrew Elder @AndrewElder]

https://t.co/SnMBLeK9KS

[Katherine Walesby. @kewdoc]

@RoshanaMN Congratulations! Also Hoping to finish too at a similar time frame in next 2 years! Fantastic to see others showing a different but just as important role model route to CCT. It’s a marathon not a sprint! 🥂

[Katherine Walesby. @kewdoc]

Thank you for inviting me to speak. A great conference yesterday and more today. Loads of shared learning from clinicians, researchers and importantly those with lived experience. #dementia #SDRC2025 @AlzScotDRC

[Neuroprogressive and Dementia Research Network 🌐 @NRS_NDN]

Really interesting presentation on how Scottish data on #dementia is collected

##SDRC2025
@EnrichScotland

[Michael Okun @MichaelOkun]

Where are we for disease modifying therapies and Parkinson's? Why not take some lessons from multiple sclerosis? Fantastic paper by Lorraine Kalia and colleagues in @Nature Reviews Neurology. Can you say MRI?
Key Points:
- Guess what? ~18 disease-modifying therapies or DMTs for relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS).
- One now for primary progressive MS.
- None for Parkinson's!
- MRI has been a game changer for MS for both diagnosis and measuring outcome.
- Reliable outcome measures for progressive MS (which still needs DMT's) and PD will be top priorities.
- Animal models and dish based models will be critical as well as of course human trials.
- Imaging and other modalities to understand early stages are critical.
- Subtyping is hard in both MS and PD.
- MS and PD have many different forms/presentations and understanding who to apply which therapy will be important.
My take: Love the perspective of learning from another disease. I think it is important in Parkinson's that we learn from MS. Reflecting on how important using MRI has been for MS I beleive is an important lesson in the story. Reading this article gives me inspiration that we are on the right track in Parkinson's. It also gives me hope for those suffering from more progressive forms of MS; help is on the way.
https://t.co/TJJSJBCqsj #Parkinson #multiplesclerosis #MS

[Katherine Walesby. @kewdoc]

@Team_Oaklands ❤️❤️❤️

[Just a care home girl @Justacarehomeg1]

Caring responsibilities could fall on any of us tomorrow, in a few weeks, a few years....Those responsibilities could last a few weeks, years or even a lifetime.
#CarersEmployment24

[Just a care home girl @Justacarehomeg1]

So many mentions of people not appreciating how much #unpaid care impacts life until you are required to give or receive care.
#CarersEmplpyment24

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Nothing justifies what we have witnessed here’: the doctors returning home from Gaza.

British doctors Mohammed Tahir and Omar El-Taji thought they were mentally prepared to help treat people in Rafah. But what they and other foreign volunteers faced was beyond anything they could have imagined

https://t.co/VDE86jEr1Z

[Katherine Walesby. @kewdoc]

https://t.co/LI3sYgMFHd

[Katherine Walesby. @kewdoc]

A little younger than my daughter & with the same #raredisease - deteriorating in Gaza. As fellow parents we are desperately trying to get an urgent medevac. Please share my friends (and fellow amazing AHC parents) interview with @SkyNews

https://t.co/29GobpTdhu

[Katherine Walesby. @kewdoc]

@CureAHC @hopeforannabel @iABehl @SupportAHCUK @AHCFE_

[MSF International @MSF]

AGAIN - we urgently reiterate our call to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire, and for the protection of medical facilities, staff and patients, and to allow people who wish to leave the hospital to do so.

[Grant Smith Ellis @GrantSmithEllis]

Just now on @AJEnglish, the co-founder of @GazaMedicVoices, Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, begged for a #ceasefire - as live images showed #alShifa hospital being directly bombed;

"Over 5,000 dead children is enough."

"Over 5 hospitals targeted by a military in the past days is enough."

[Katherine Walesby. @kewdoc]

@PauletteHamilto As a parent of a child with learning disabilities I find this shameful. Disabled people are discriminated against all the time. There was an urgent need for this and yet you turned it down. They are people. They are humans. They deserve to have a safe place to call home.

[Paula McGowan OBE @PaulaMc007]

#Oliverscampaign
This powerful animation Codesigned Coproduced with autistic people & people with a learning disability It is aimed at helping staff & employers across Health & Social Care to understand Oliver’s training & why it is vitally important

https://t.co/arLqQZyAL3

[Paula McGowan OBE @PaulaMc007]

#Oliverscampaign @mariacaulfield @CNOEngland @NavinaEvans @ClaireCNWL @pspicer01 @CahillT1
It is essential that every Board & Executive team attend Olivers training
As @AmandaPritchard has demonstrated True leadership is demonstrated by setting the standard & leading by example

[Katherine Walesby. @kewdoc]

@PaulaMc007 My heart goes out to you. Oliver was failed. You were failed despite advocating so hard for him. #Oliverscampaign is so important for the NHS. As a mum to a child with learning disabilities I have also been dismissed while advocating for her. It is not okay. It is frightening.

[Dr Jo Billington @MsJoBillington]

“Dozens of young autistic people have died after serious failings in their care despite repeated warnings from coroners”

We know what the problems are. We’ve known for decades.

This is why programmes like #NATPmentalhealth are so important.

https://t.co/PaTiSkfts4

[Patricia Alban @PAlbanStanley]

“Young autistic people still dying despite coroner warnings over care - BBC News.” Seeing the face of my sweet Sammy here is💔💔💔💔. (Also BBC NEWS 6pm, RADIO 4 PM Show 5pm, BBC NEWS CHANNEL also 5pm.) https://t.co/X5RLQzqtzN