Members
The UK MND CSG currently has 35 members including:
Professor Ammar Al Chalabi
Professor of Neurology and Complex Disease at King’s College London. Director of the MND Care and Research Centre at King’s College London.
Dr Idris Baker
Consultant in palliative medicine in Swansea.
Dr Amina Chaouch
Consultant Neurologist in Salford.
Dr Suresh Kumar Chhetri
Consultant Neurologist at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Nick Cole
Head of Research at the Motor Neurone Disease Assocation.
Dr Richard Davenport
Consultant Neurologist, Western General Hospital and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh (appointed 1999)
Brian Dickie
Brian Dickie graduated in 1991 with a Ph.D in Neuropharmacology from the University of Wales College of Medicine.
Nicola Drewry
I have been diagnosed with MND since March 2016. I am receiving some very professional assistance and care.
Dr Christina Faull
Consultant in Palliative Medicine at LOROS, the Leicestershire and Rutland Hospice and the University Hospitals of Leicester.
Dr George Gorrie
Consultant Neurologist at the Institute of Neurosciences in Glasgow.
Dr Oliver Hanemann
Director Institute of Translational and Stratified Medicine, PU Peninsula Medical School. Honorary Neurology consultant Plymouth Hopsital NHS Trust.
Dr Thomas Lambert
Consultant Neurologist, University Hospitals North Midlands.
Professor P. Nigel Leigh
Professor of Neurology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton UK and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust.
Dr Andrea Malaspina
Reader in Clinical Neurology and Consultant Neurologist with research interests in neuromuscular and motor cell disorders.
Professor Christopher McDermott (Chair)
Professor of Translational Neurology at SITraN and a Consultant Neurologist at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust.Read more
Dr Andria Merrison
Director of the Bristol MND Centre.
Lisa Milella
I have a science background and since diagnosis in Aug 2013 I have tried to stay up to date with ALS research worldwide.
Professor Karen Morrison
Associate Dean for Education and Student Experience, and Director of Education, Professor of Neurology in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton. She is also an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at University Hospital Southampton, where she runs MND clinics in the Wessex Neurology Centre.
Dr Ian Morrison
Consultant Neurologist at Ninewells Hospital and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.
Professor Mary O'Brien
Professor of Palliative and Supportive Care.
Dr Richard Orrell
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, UCL Institute of Neurology, London.
Suvankar Pal
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neurology, University of Edinburgh.
Dr Ashwin Pinto
Postgraduate Research Fellow at Neurosciences Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University.
Dr Aleksandar Radunovic
Consultant Neurologist at the Barts and the Royal London Hospital and at the Queen’s Hospital Romford.
Dr Muhammad Rafiq
Consultant Neurologist at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust, where he is also the MND Centre Co-Director.
Dr Pablo Garcia Reitboeck
Consultant Neurologist at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Rhys Roberts
Consultant Neurologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. Director of the Cambridge MND Care Centre
Dr Nikhil Sharma
Consultant Neurologist at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, The National Hospital of Neurology.
Professor Dame Pam Shaw
Professor of Neurology and Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health at the University of Sheffield and Founding Director of the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN).
Professor Kevin Talbot
Professor of Motor Neuron Biology, Head of the Division of Clinical Neurology in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford and Co-director for the Oxford MND Care and Research Centre.
Dr Jon Tomas
Consultant in Palliative Care, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Martin Turner
Consultant Neurologist and Co-Director of the Oxford MND Care & Research Centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
Janine Vince
My husband had the familial form of MND and died in January 1993. Since then I have been involved with the MND Association at branch level and also spent 7 years as a Trustee.
Dr Tim Williams
Consultant neurologist at the Regional Neurosciences Centre in Newcastle and director of the Newcastle MND Care and Research Centre.
Professor Carolyn Young (Deputy Chair)
Consultant at the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and Care Centre director.
Stacy Young (Coordinator)
Clinical Research Manager for Neurodegenerative Disease studies.How to join
We welcome new members, so if you would like to find out more please email info.ukmndcsg@gmail.com
Membership
Members are invited to attend monthly teleconferences and an annual face to face event. Information on monthly meetings and activity is sent via email. All members are regularly informed about current research activity and performance, funding opportunities and new research projects (commercial and non-commercial) that they can become involved in.