The Senior Associates Network
Senior Associates are recognised worldwide leaders and experts in integrated care that partner with IFIC to promote the integrated care agenda as well as IFIC current work. Our Senior Associates support our education, research and consultancy work, and, importantly, they are IFIC trusted critical friends as we deliver our vision. The Network has been launched in April 2022 and it is currently formed by the Senior Associates below.

Albert Alonso
Senior Researcher at the Department of Research and Innovation (Clinic Research Foundation Barcelona, Hospital Clínic Barcelona)

David Burke
Senior Staff Specialist and Clinical Lead in Older People’s Mental Health at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
Associate Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry, the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney

Nereide A. Curreri
Gerontologist
Researcher at the Optentia Research Unit of North-West University South Africa
Researcher at the Centre for Environment, Dementia and Ageing Research (CEDAR) of University of Stirling, UK

John Eastwood
Medical Officer of Health at the National Public Health Service – Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
Clinical Professor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Anne Hendry
Director IFICs Hub in Scotland
Honorary Professor, University of the West of Scotland
Honorary Secretary, British Geriatrics Society

Susan Kent
Associate Professor, Nursing, Midwifery, Public & Community Health at Dublin City University
Member of National Screening Advisory Council

Kirsty Marshall
Senior Lecturer Nursing at University of Salford, Professional doc. student and Researcher in Integrated Care

Michelle Nelson
Scientist in the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health System
Assistant Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto

Juan Riese
Officer for European RDI Projects at the Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (IACS), Zaragoza (Spain)

Carolyn Steele Gray
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Implementing Digital Health Innovation
Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Canada

Heidrun Sturm
Head Innovative Care Structures and Healthcare Systems at Institute of General Practice and Interprofessional Care, University Hospital Tübingen