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I qualified in 1988 from University College and Middlesex Medical School with distinctions in Medicine, Surgery and Therapeutics. After general professional training in various postgraduate London teaching hospitals, I was awarded a prestigious MRC Clinical Training Fellowship at Guy's Hospital, investigating the association between C jejuni infection and Guillain-Barre syndrome completing a PhD in 1985. I then did my neurology training at the Royal Free Hospital, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, St Thomas' Hospital and neuro-oncology training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

I am the only neurologically trained neuro-oncologist in England, Ireland and Wales and am referred patients with neurological problems due to brain tumours or other cancers from all over the country and from abroad. I was the neurologist advising the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on writing national Brain Tumour Guidelines and have been a member of the National Cancer Research Network Brain Tumour Clinical Studies Group. I was the UK Chief Investigator for an important trial comparing chemotherapy against radiotherapy in Low-Grade Gliomas.

I have extensive teaching experience both of medical students and qualified doctors and organise an annual teaching course for professionals involved in the care of patients with brain tumours. I have given invited lectures at national and international neurology conferences on all aspects of neuro-oncology.

I am an expert witness in medical negligence cases involving misdiagnosis and treatment of brain tumours and neurological complications of cancer.

I have published over seventy papers and reviews in scientific and medical journals, have contributed chapters on brain tumours and neurological complications of cancer to various reference books including the Queen Square Textbook and Oxford Textbook of Medicine. I have edited a textbook on neuro-oncology and have jointly edited a textbook on Neuro-oncology.