PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Age: 45 years
Nationality: British
Qualifications: 1984 B.Med.Sci. 2/1 (Nottingham)
1986 BM, BS (Nottingham)
1987 GMC Full Registration
1990 MRCP ( UK)
1997 CCST Neurology
2003 FRCP ( UK)
Current NHS Post
Consultant Neurologist to Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust since 1997
Experience
I have a broad range of neurological experience. I have particular interests and experience in Parkinson’s Disease Movement Disorders, Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, HIV-related neurological conditions and neuropathies. I provide second opinions on movement disorders to other Sussex-based neurologists. I run a beta-interferon program for patients with Multiple Sclerosis and have experience in the use of specialist antibody-based treatments and cytotoxic treatments for neuropathies and other immune-mediated neurological disorders. I have experience in the management of HIV-related neurological problems.
Affiliations
Member of the Association of British Neurologists
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
Member of the Hospital Consultants & Specialists Association
President of Parkinson’s Disease Society, Brighton & Hove Branch
Specialist Clinics (NHS)
Epilepsy
Movement Disorders (including Parkinson’s Disease).
Botulinum Toxin clinic for the treatment Dystonia
Teaching
I am a neuro-anatomy demonstrator and give other neuroscience lectures at the Brighton & Sussex Medical School. I also give regular lectures to GP’s and teach Neurology to training grade Doctors.
Research
I have undertaken and published lab-based research in Parkinson’s Disease at The Parkinson’s Disease Society Brain Bank and The Institute of Neurology. Using In situ hybridization to neurotransmitter mRNAs, I was able to demonstrate changes in the enkephalin, GAD , nitric oxide and somatostatin systems in various basal ganglia regions in post-mortem Parkinson's disease brains when compared to controls. The findings were broadly consistent with an animal models of PD and provided a rationale for the development of drugs with novel modes of action for the symptomatic treatment of Parkinson's disease. I have published on the use of cabergoline in Parkinson’s disease. I am currently involved with patient based research with the University of Sussex. I am interested in the cause of cell death in Parkinson's disease, the function of the basal ganglia, visual Function in PD, quantitative assessment of tremor & dyskinesia in PD.
Neurology Training:
I trained in Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square ( London) University Hospital Nottingham, University Hospital of Wales. I was fortunate to be taught by some of the great Clinical Neurologists of our time including the late Professors David Marsden, Anita Harding, and Professor P.K. Thomas. During my period as a senior registrar in Nottingham, I underwent some further specialist elective training at the Epilepsy Unit, Queen Square, London with Professors Simon Shorvon, John Duncan and David Fish.
General Medical Training
I trained at Nottingham as a medical student and houseman and completed my general medical training in Manchester and in Mansfield.
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