Dr Michael O'Brien
Physician Emeritus, Department of Neurology, Guy’s and St.Thomas’ Hospital, London Consultant Advisor in Neurology to the Civil Aviation Authority
Speaker's biography
Previously:
- Consultant Neurologist at Guy’s and St.Thomas’ Hospital
- Hon. Senior Lecturer in Neurology, Kings College London
- Hon. Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Hon. Consultant Neurologist, Kings College Hospital Undergraduate training at Guy’s Hospital Medical School
- Training in neurology at Guy’s Hospital, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and in Newcastle upon Tyne
- MRC research positions at Guy’s Hospital, in Newcastle and at the University of Minnesota, USA
- Past President of The Harveian Society, the Clinical Neurosciences Section of The Royal Society of Medicine, The South of England Neurosciences Association and The Medical Society of London
- Chairman of the Medical Artists Education Trust and their examining board
- Director and Trustee of the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
- Member of the International Aerospace Neurology Consortium
- Deputy editor of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
- Editorial advisor to the British Medical Journal
- Editorial board of the American Heart Association journal ‘Stroke’, Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Guarantor of ‘Brain'
Special interests:
Cerebrovascular haemodynamics, mononeuropathies, women with epilepsy and aviation neurology