Professor David Werring

Professor David Werring is Professor of Clinical Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), University College Hospitals (UCH) NHS Foundation Trust.

Professor Werring has over a decade of consultant experience in diagnosing and treating acute stroke, transient ischaemic attack, as well as other neurological conditions that can look like them, such as migraine, seizures, etc. He runs specialist outpatient clinics and attends the hyperacute and acute stroke units within the comprehensive specialist stroke service at University College Hospital and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square.

Professor Werring also leads a research group specialising in disease of the small arteries of the brain that can cause brain haemorrhage and cognitive problems. He is Head of the Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation at UCL Institute of Neurology, and stroke speciality lead for the National Institute of Health Research Clinical Research Network: North Thames.

He contributes to national and international education and clinical guidelines, regularly lectures at national and international conferences, has published numerous research articles and contributed to several textbooks..

• Neurosonography
• Neuroimaging

• Acute stroke
• brain injury
• intracranial haemorrhage
• Cerebrovascular disease
• transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
• diagnosis of stroke and TIA
• migraine
• cerebral hemorrhage
• cerebral small vessel disease
• cerebral amyloid angiopathy
• superficial siderosis
• vascular cognitive impairment