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Neurology Speakers
Dr Geraint Fuller
Dr Geraint Fuller is a Consultant Neurologist at the Gloucestershire Royal NHS Trust. He qualified in 1983 and started clinical neurology training in London. He won the Queen Square Prize in Neurology in 1990.
He is particularly interested in education and training and has written two textbooks, including Neurological Examination Made Easy (Churchill Livingstone). He has also edited a training journal Neurology in Practice. He is the Chair of the Neurology Specialty Advisory Committee and has been closely involved in introducing assessment into specialty training in medicine all while maintaining a busy clinical service.
Dr Brendan Davies
Brendan Davies is a Consultant Neurologist at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire where he coordinates the acute inpatient headache pathway. He is also Clinical Director of the North Midlands Regional Headache Clinic, which is affiliated to Keele University Medical School. He organises a course for the British Society for the Study of Headache. His specific interests include acute secondary headache disorders, chronic daily headache disorders, and headache education.
Dr Davies qualified at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London. He developed an interest in headache disorders as a Senior Registrar at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. He trained as an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at The Headache Group at the National Hospital for Neurological Diseases.
Professor Adolfo Bronstein
Adolfo Bronstein is Professor of Clinical Neuro-otology at Imperial College London, where he heads the Neuro-otology Unit in Charing Cross Hospital. He is also a Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Professor at the National Hospital and Institute of Neurology, Queens Square, London.
He specialises in vestibular disease, eye movements and balance disorders and organises the neuro-otology teaching sessions of the European and World neurological societies. He has published over 200 papers, and a recently released book, Dizziness, a Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management, on the control of balance and disorders of this system.
Professor Phil Smith
Phil Smith trained in clinical neurology in Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Cardiff. He was consultant neurologist in Cornwall from 1992 and has been consultant neurologist in Cardiff since 1996. His main clinical and research interests are the diagnosis of transient loss of consciousness, improving patient communication, adherence to drug treatment and teenagers with epilepsy. Professor Smith is president of the UK Chapter of International League Against Epilepsy, Trust associate medical director for training and education and DVLA panel member for driving and disorders of the nervous system.
Dr Rustam Al-Shahi Salman
Rustam Al-Shahi Salman became interested in neurology during medical training in Cambridge and on neurology courses in Edinburgh. His clinical and research interests encompass all forms of stroke (subarachnoid and intraparenchymal haemorrhage, in particular), intracranial vascular malformations (whether ruptured or not), and—increasingly—incidentalomas detected on brain imaging (whether in clinical practice, in research studies, or as part of so-called “health check-ups”). He also runs a rapid access neurology clinic for his local emergency department.
Dr Jon Stone
Jon Stone trained in Edinburgh, Oxford, Leeds and Newcastle and is a consultant neurologist and honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences in Edinburgh. Since 1999 he has developed a research and clinical interest in functional symptoms within neurology, particularly the symptom of weakness which formed the basis of his PhD. This problem is also known as conversion disorder. Dr Stone is on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) advisory panel for conversion disorder and writes regularly on this topic with colleagues Michael Sharpe, Alan Carson and Charles Warlow.
Dr Huw Morris
Huw Morris is a senior lecturer in neurology at Cardiff University and an honorary consultant at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff and the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. He trained in neurology and neurogenetics at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida; the Western Pacific island of Guam and South London. Huw’s main research interest is neurogenetics, particularly applied to neurodegenerative diseases such as fronto-temporal dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. His clinical practice focuses on movement disorders, early onset dementia and neurogenetics. His research is funded by the Parkinson’s Disease Society, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association and the Medical Research Council.
