Enhance Your Memory and Cognitive Wellness
Memcheck Memory Clinic is dedicated to early dementia detection and comprehensive memory assessments. Our mission is to empower individuals with personalized advice to boost brain performance and maintain optimal brain health, guided by compassion and scientific expertise.
Memcheck is the ‘brainchild’ of Dr. Mary Fisher Morris CPsychol, whose interests in research make her believe passionately in the importance of NeuroCognitive Assessment in determining an early diagnosis of dementia.
Qualifications
PhD – University of Liverpool
MA(econ) – University of Manchester
BA(hons) – University of Liverpool
Registered General Nurse –Wrexham group of Hospitals
Chartered Psychologist- British Psychological Society
In 2019, Mary was co-opted as Psychologist to join- Secretary of State for Transport’s Honorary Medical Advisory Panel On Driving and Psychiatric Disorders.
Originally training as a Registered General Nurse (RGN), Mary gained clinical experience working in both the Private and NHS sectors; this included 11 years working and caring for patients with dementia which stimulated her research at Keele University into responses of pain in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr Mary Fisher-Morris Associate Fellow, Chartered Psychologist
Mary completed 13 years as the Head of Research and Clinical Audit in the NHS co-ordinating the many national clinical trials, research projects and clinical audits that were undertaken at the Trust.
Mary then undertook some project work at Mersey Internal Audit Agency prior to moving into Consultancy.
For 3 years Mary held the position of Special Advisor (Mental Health) with the Care Quality Commission. This role involved being an active team member of Hospital Inspections across England, looking specifically at services offered to people with dementia both in community and long stay hospital wards.
Lecturing and presenting is a part of networking that Mary enjoys, including
- Conference speaker at Dementia Symposium Haydock Liverpool – ‘Early Cognitive Screening using CantabMobile’
- Speaker at University of Liverpool Medical Faculty; Continuing Professional Development seminar- ‘What if it’s Alzheimer’s?’ This was done in conjunction with a Consultant Radiologist from Walton Neurological Centre Liverpool, who presented Brain images of varying stages of dementia.
- Presenter at seminar to AFTAthought- http://www.aftathought.co.uk/ in Liverpool.
- Presenter at Dementia Day Conference at Warrington NHS Trust- ‘The Troubled Mind- Dementia Cause and Effect’ and ‘ Understanding and Managing the Underlying Causes of Difficult Behaviours’.
Mary is also an active researcher and recent projects include-
Researcher & Author of ‘Risky Business’ – a national project looking at how Fire and Rescue Personnel manage risk and make decisions at emergency incident.
Project Manager for Stroke research at the Countess of Chester NHS Trust looking at Repetitive Sensory Stimulation in patients immediately post stroke.
Clinical Advisor in software development -Reducing Anxiety in Dementia Patients.
Author- ‘Recognising and Developing Brain Potential’ iInnov.age Autumn 2013 issue 3.
In January 2020, Mary and Prof Michael Hornberger were awarded funding to research Cognitive Impairment in Older Drivers and have set up a trial – Driver Effect of Cognitive Impairment on Spatial Orientation and Navigation – ‘DECISION’.
This commenced June 2020. The follow up projects of this –Sensor and Indicate are currently ongoing