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Training Courses

BDR hosts annual training programs for clinicians involved in brain donation and other interested parties such as mortuary technicians.

Our regular contributors to these events include the following:

  • Sue Eckstein, lecturer in Clinical & Biomedical Ethics at Brighton & Sussex Medical School, is our ethical training organiser.
  • Professor Jonathan Montgomery of the University of Southampton is an expert on the legal aspects of consent as defined in the Human Tissue Act.
  • Professor Bobbie Farsides, also at Brighton & Sussex, addresses the philosophical and ethical perspective, discussed in the context of respect for the dead and their families.
  • Dr Julian Sheather is ethics manager at the British Medical Association and speaks on the capacity to give consent, as set out in the Mental Capacity Act.
  • Tracey Millar, Research Nurse at the MRC Sudden Death Brain Bank at Edinburgh provides valuable experience of taking consent for donation from relatives.
  • Angela Clayton-Turner, whose husband is in the late stages of dementia, presents the perspective of donation from a relative and carer's point of view.

Slides from some of the presentations given at our training days are available for download:

If you have any queries about our training courses or on ethical or other issues please contact the Brains for Dementia Research Coordinating Centre on 020 7848 8377 or email us at  bdr.office@kcl.ac.uk

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