As a clinical academic Dr Emma Cunningham combines her University roles with being a consultant geriatrician in the Belfast Trust. Dr Cunningham's funded research interests centre on the interfaces and overlaps between delirium, dementia-causing diseases, frailty and perioperative health. In her clinical role Dr Cunningham runs weekly memory clinics in Belfast. Dr Cunningham is an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute. She is currently secretary of the European Delirium Association and Chair of ISTAART's Perioperative Cognition and Delirium Professional Interest Area.