Professor Emma Vardy is a Consultant Geriatrician and Clinical frailty lead at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation trust in North West England.  She holds an honorary clinical chair with the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre in the Faculty for Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester. Professor Vardy is the National Institute for Health and Care Research Greater Manchester (NIHR GM) Clinical Research Network ageing specialty lead and the NIHR GM Applied Research Collaboration deputy lead for the health ageing theme.  She is senior editor for the journal Age and Ageing, a board member of the European Delirium Association, committee member for the UK Hospital at home Society and co-chair of the North West England British Geriatrics Society committee.  She has published widely on topics which include delirium, acute illness in the older person, frailty, dementia, virtual wards, quality improvement and digital.