The ReaDementia professional team and contributors include people with backgrounds in medicine, dementia care, neuroscience, psychology, social work, caregiving education and health communication.
Their experience helps inform the educational content published on ReaDementia for people living with dementia, families and caregivers.
ReaDementia is an independent health information website. Our content is intended for education and general information and is not a substitute for individual medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Not every person listed on this page has written, reviewed or medically reviewed every article on ReaDementia. Professional roles and credentials can also change over time, so older contributor biographies should be understood in the context of when that person contributed to the website.
How Our Professional Team Contributes
Members of our professional team and contributor network have provided knowledge and experience across areas including:
- Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
- Dementia symptoms and diagnosis
- Neurology and cognitive health
- Geriatric healthcare
- Dementia care and caregiving
- Behavior and communication
- Psychology and social work
- Medication management
- Healthy aging and wellbeing
Our articles also draw on established medical organizations, research institutions and peer-reviewed evidence wherever appropriate.
You can learn more about how content is researched, written and updated on our Editorial Process page.
Meet the ReaDementia Professional Team
Laura Herman
Laura Herman is an elder and dementia care professional, consultant and writer with more than 20 years of experience supporting older adults, people living with dementia, families and care professionals.
Her work has included frontline caregiving, activity support, care coordination, administration, family support and staff education. Laura is also associated with ABC Dementia, which focuses on understanding behavioral and non-verbal communication in dementia.
Porsche Lee, PA-C
Porsche Lee is a physician assistant who trained at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine and is board certified through the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
She has spent a significant part of her career working with older adults. Her experience includes caring for geriatric patients and working closely with patients’ families.
Teodora Ghiur, MSc
Teodora Ghiur has an educational background in psychology and an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Her contributor biography describes experience working with clinical trial studies in the United Kingdom involving older adults with memory decline, as well as neuroscience research involving neurofeedback and EEG technology.
Petra Boh
Petra Boh is a social worker with an educational background from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
Her contributor biography describes experience in government social work involving legal guardianship and temporary and permanent care arrangements for people living with dementia.
Dr. Muhammad Usman
Dr. Muhammad Usman contributed medical and nutrition-related knowledge to ReaDementia.
His contributor biography describes him as a physician, nutritionist and researcher with experience publishing medical research in peer-reviewed journals.
Yasmin Aghajan, MD
Dr. Yasmin Aghajan is a neurologist and neurocritical care specialist affiliated with Mass General Brigham.
She completed medical school at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine before completing neurology residency and neurocritical care fellowship training through the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital programs.
Dr. Aghajan is board certified in neurology and neurocritical care.
Brittany Lamb, MD
Dr. Brittany Lamb is an emergency medicine physician and educator who works with families making medical decisions for people living with dementia.
Her work outside the emergency department focuses on helping dementia family caregivers better understand medical decision-making, advance care planning and communication with healthcare teams.
ReaDementia Site Leadership
Rok Krivec – Founder
Rok Krivec founded ReaDementia with the aim of creating a website where dementia professionals, caregivers, families and the wider community could share information and improve understanding of dementia.
Trevor Howitt – Owner and Editor
Trevor Howitt is an educator and father of seven who has lived and worked with his family in a number of remote communities.
Trevor took over ownership and management of ReaDementia in 2021. He oversees the website, coordinates content updates and continues the site’s aim of making dementia information understandable and accessible to families and caregivers.
Trevor is not a physician and does not provide medical advice. Medical and scientific claims published on ReaDementia are researched using appropriate health authorities, medical organizations and scientific literature.
Professional Team and Additional Contributors
ReaDementia has also benefited from contributions from people with professional, personal and industry experience relevant to dementia and caregiving.
Adreinne Lone
Adreinne Lone is a health psychologist with 25 years of experience drawing on a range of approaches including yoga, Ayurveda, exercise physiology, grief counseling and functional fitness.
She describes herself as curious, passionate and creative, with a particular interest in helping people explore ways to improve, expand and extend their healthspan.
Aziz Tarafder
Aziz Tarafder contributed knowledge relating to medication management and dementia care.
His contributor biography describes both professional experience in medication-management products and personal family experience with dementia.
Candace Kastanis
Candace Kastanis contributed medical and health writing to ReaDementia.
Her contributor biography describes a scientific background and medical-writing education, with an emphasis on communicating current medical information and research in a form that is understandable to general readers.
Our Editorial Standards
Professional expertise is only one part of producing reliable health information.
When updating ReaDementia, we aim to use current information from respected sources such as government health agencies, medical organizations, universities and peer-reviewed research. Older articles are periodically reviewed and updated where information has changed.
Our Editorial Process explains these standards in greater detail.
If you believe information on ReaDementia is inaccurate or outdated, we welcome corrections and feedback so that it can be reviewed.
About ReaDementia
ReaDementia provides educational information about dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions, together with practical information for families and caregivers.
Our goal is to make complicated subjects easier to understand while clearly distinguishing general educational information from individual medical advice.
The ReaDementia professional team, contributors and editorial process all form part of that commitment.
