Dr Paul Holmes

Dr. Paul Holmes is a Consultant Neurologist at Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College Hospital. He leads the general neurology service at Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals, and sees patients with all common neurological presentations, including migraine, dizziness, vertigo, blackouts and symptoms of tingling, numbess and weakness. His main work is in providing an acute liaison neurology service, with particular interest in stroke, headache, intensive care neurology and the neurology of HIV infection. He is often asked to provide a second opinion for patients with complex presentations, especially stroke and TIA.

Dr. Holmes trained at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, and came to the UK in 1991, where he completed his specialist training in neurology at Guys & St. Thomas', King's and the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square. He obtained an MD in TIA and stroke imaging at the University of London in 2000 and became FRCP in 2005.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• General neurology:

headache/migraine

dizziness, vertigo and blackouts

tinging and numbness

• Stroke
• TIA
• Neurology of HIV infection.