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.

Co author in ‘Firefighting a risky business’.

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

Publications

GPS navigation assistance is associated with driving mobility in older drivers; Sol Morrissey ¹, Stephen Jeffs ², Rachel Gillings ¹, Mizanur Khondoker ¹, Anuraj Varshney ³, Mary Fisher-Morris ⁴, Ed Manley ⁵, Michael Hornberger ^1,*

The Impact of Spatial Orientation Changes on Driving Behavior in Healthy Aging; Sol Morrissey, MSc,1, Stephen Jeffs, PhD,2 Rachel Gillings, MSc,1 Mizanur Khondoker, PhD,1 Martyn Patel, MD,1,3 Mary Fisher-Morris, PhD,4 Ed Manley, PhD,5 and Michael Hornberger, PhD1,*

The impact of urban vs rural environments on driving mobility and safety in older age

Sol Morrissey ^a, Stephen Jeffs ^b, Rachel Gillings ^a, Mizanur Khondoker ^a, Mary Fisher-Morris ^c, Ed Manley ^d, Michael Hornberger ^a

PULSE-I – Is rePetitive Upper Limb SEnsory stimulation early after stroke feasible and acceptable? A stratified single-blinded randomised controlled feasibility study

Kausik Chatterjee,¹ Rachel C. Stockley,² Steven Lane,³ Caroline Watkins,² Katy Cottrell,¹ Brenda Ankers,¹ Sioned Davies,¹ Mary Fisher Morris,⁴ Nick Fallon,⁵ and Turo Nurmikko⁶