Dr Manjit Matharu
Dr Manjit Matharu is a senior Lecturer at The Institute of Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen square, London, UK. He is the Clinical Lead of the Headache Group at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Dr Matharu gained his BSc and MBChB from the University of Manchester in 1991 and 1994, respectively. He completed his general medical training in London leading up to obtaining the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1998. He subsequently obtained a PhD at The Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London on Structural and Functional Neuroimaging in Primary Headache Syndromes. He completed his residency in Neurology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, The Royal London Hospital and Homerton Hospital in London in 2007. Dr Matharu’s major research interests include functional and structural imaging in Primary headaches, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias and neurostimulation for intractable headaches. He has authored numerous scientific papers.
Dr Paul Shanahan
Dr Paul Shanahan is a Consultant Neurologist with the Headache Group at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He trained at University College Dublin and gained his MB BCh BAO in 1993. He undertook general medical training in Ireland before specialising in Neurology in 1997, and has trained in Neurology in Ireland and London. He trained in Headache at the Headache Group of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery before taking up his current consultant post there. His interests include chronic migraine, hemiplegic migraine and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias.
Dr Brendan Davies
Dr 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 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 Neurology and Neurosurgery.
He organises a course for the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH). His specific interests include acute secondary headache disorders, chronic daily headache disorders, and headache education.
Dr Giles Elrington
Dr Giles Elrington qualified at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1980 with honours in Surgery, and in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. He trained in London, Oxford and Southampton. His MD thesis in the late 1980s was on cross-reactive autoimmunity between small cell lung cancer and the neuromuscular junction. Thereafter he acquired an interest in headache and since becoming a consultant in 1993 has run the Headache clinic at the Royal London Hospital, later Barts and the London NHS Trust where more recently he has done clinical trial work in headache and multiple sclerosis. From 1993 to 2001 he was also consultant neurologist in Colchester where he established the neurocare rehabilitation team. From 2001 he has has a portfolio career in which the largest growth area has been running clinics from Primary Care Trusts in Essex. He is a former treasurer of the British Association for the Study of Headache, on the Executive Committee of the Anglo-Dutch Migraine Association, and a Director of the City of London Migraine Clinic.
Dr Anne MacGregor
Dr Anne MacGregor is Clinical Research Director at the City of London Migraine Clinic, an independent medical charity, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Research Centre for Neuroscience within the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She is also an Instructing Doctor and CRQ Convener for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Her research covers all aspects of headache and migraine with a particular interest in the effects of sex hormones on headache.
Dr Michael McKenzie
Dr Michael McKenzie is a full time General Practitioner (GP) partner in Glasgow who has also been working as a General Practitioner with Special Interest (GPwSI) in headache with the West of Scotland Headache Group in the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow since 2005. He gained his MBChB from Glasgow University in 1995 and self-constructed his GP training scheme resulting in him passing his MRCGP with Merit in 2003. He became a GP partner in 2005 and has also been working for the West of Scotland Headache service since then where he undertakes independent Headache clinics. He was on the Headache sub-group committe of the Neurology Quality Improvement Scotland process from 2008 to 2009, which devised Clinical standards for Neurological Health services in Scotland. Dr Alok Tyagi
Dr Alok Tyagi is a Consultant Neurologist at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. He is the Lead Clinician for the West of Scotland Regional Headache service which he established on taking up his current post.Dr Tyagi gained his MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi, India. He then trained in General Medicine and subsequently Neurology at LNJPN & GB Pant Hospitals in New Delhi, India. He undertook further training in Neurology in the British Isles prior to taking up his Consultant post in Glasgow in 2003. Dr Tyagi's interests include management of chronic daily headache and headaches due to alterations in CSF pressure. Dr Tyagi also has a very keen interest in headache education and is actively involved in the organization and delivery of lectures and teaching courses on headache disorders in Scotland.
Dr David Watson
Dr David PB Watson graduated from Aberdeen University in 1984. Dr Watson completed his GP training in Aberdeen and after a short stint in Australia returned to Aberdeen in 1990 where he has worked since at the Hamilton Medical Group, 4 Queens Road, Aberdeen. Dr Watson developed an interest in Headache in 1992 and was asked to set up a secondary care clinic at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in 2005. He has worked there since as a GPwSI in HeadacheBetween 2005 and 2008, Dr Watson was Chairman of the project group that wrote SIGN guideline 107, Diagnosis and Management of Headache in Adults. Between 2007 and 2008, he was a group member of the Scottish Executive Neurosciences Project Board. Between 2008 and 2009, Dr Watson was a group member of the generic group, and chair of the Headache subgroup, for the Neurological Standards project set up by Quality Improvement Scotland. The standards were published in September 2009.
Dr Watson has authored a number of papers and articles including an editorial in BJGP on the challenges and opportunities in Headache management. He has lectured widely on Headache to GPs, neurologists, pharmacists, nurses, medical students and patients.
Dr Watson's Headache interests are GP education and the management of chronic migraine and medication overuse headache.
Dr Tim Young
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Dr Tim Young is a locum Consultant Neurologist with the Headache Group at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He obtained his BSc and MBBS (with distinction) at Kings College London, graduating in 1997. After medical training in London, he passed his MRCP in 2000, before specialising in Neurology in 2001. His PhD (in the filed of Autonomic Medicine) was completed at Imperial College London. Dr Young has authored a number of scientific papers and both presented at and attended international conferences
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