Jacqui Cannon is a public collaborator with the PHIRST LiLaC team and member of PHIRST LiLaC’s steering group.

She has been involved with The Lewy Body Society, a dementia charity for 10 years, as a volunteer whilst continuing to work as a Senior IT Business Analyst in the financial services sector and the last 6 years on a full-time basis.  She is a former carer for her father who lived with Lewy body and her mother who lived with fibrosis of the lungs and other health conditions.

She is chair of Wigan Borough Dementia Friendly Community and is a Greater Manchester Champion for Join Dementia Research, which helps to recruit participants for research studies and drug trials.