Welcome to the team
We are delighted to welcome two new Clinical Associates to the DSDC Team; Lindsay Dingwall and Dio Giotas have been working away behind the scenes over the last few weeks to help us with the updates to the Best Practice in Dementia Care Learning Programme. You’ll find a bit more information about them below. Welcome to the team!
Lindsay Dingwall, RN – Adult, BN SPQ Older People, PGCert THE, PGCert Advanced Practice, MRes - Clinical Associate (Specialist Practitioner in Older People)
Linsday is an NMC registered Nurse, Lecturer and Practice Educator who specialises in the Nursing of Older People for more than 40 years. She has worked at a senior level across a range of organisations, including as a Clinical Academic Nurse Consultant within NHS Tayside and University of Dundee. Lindsay was a Lecturer of Nursing in the University of Dundee and has latterly worked in the private sector as a Clinical Care Quality Manager and a Practice Development Manager.
Linsday has been responsible for the development and teaching of older people nursing at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Linsday has presented nationally and internationally on a range of age, frailty and educational topics. Lindsay has published many refereed journal papers and has contributed chapters in textbooks and has written a book about essential clinical skills for nurses. Lindsay is a member of the British Geriatric Society and was a full member of the Scottish Delirium Association and the Scottish Care Senior Nursing Group.
Dio Giotas - BSc, MSc, FHEA, (currently PhD student) - Clinical Associate (Nurse Specialist in Dementia, Delirium and Education)
Dio is a NMC registered nurse and a specialist clinical practitioner in dementia and delirium with international training and experience. Led by his professional curiosity, he experimented over the years with several nursing specialisms ranging from acute, primary care and education to community, research and care homes.
He’s driven by his passion to transform practice and care for older adults and people affected by dementia and improve quality of services across systems. He’s a strategic thinker, a confident, eloquent and creative professional.
Dio holds an overseas bachelor’s degree in nursing, a master’s degree in dementia studies (Stirling, Scotland) and he’s currently undertaking his PhD with the University of Lancaster researching delirium superimposed on dementia. He achieved his teaching qualification with Anglia Ruskin University by completing his PGCert in Medical and Healthcare Education and holds a fellowship with the Health Education Academy. Over the past few years, Dio has made a number of literary contributions to nursing journals and delivered specialist presentations in conferences and webinars.
