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Robert Weeks

Consultant Neurologist
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Dr. Robert Weeks is a Neurologist working in London and the South East.

Dr. Weeks is a Consultant Neurologist at King's College Hospital, London, and lead clinician for the neurology department. His NHS work is based in the Neuroscience department of King's College Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and a PhD in Clinical Neurosciences.

Dr. Weeks has a broad experience in neurology, with a special interest in emergency neurology, cerebrovascular disease, movement disorders and botulinum injection for dystonia.

Dr. Weeks sees private patients in the Guthrie Clinic at King's College Hospital, in his Harley Street clinic, and in a number of private hospitals in London, Croydon and Kent.

Please send requests for appointments or enquiries about appointments to Dr. Weeks' private secretaries, Laura Beer:

Phone: 0207 034 8780

Fax: 0207 034 8783

E-mail: Laura.Beer@hcahealthcare.co.uk


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Richard Selway has been a Consultant Neurosurgeon since 2001. He studied medicine and neuroanatomy in Cambridge before qualifying in 1989. Specialist training was in Cambridge, Oxford, Birmingham and finally in London where he completed a Fellowship in functional neurosurgery. He was awarded the Norman Dott Gold Medal by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1999.

In addition to his expertise in degenerative spine disease including the management of back and neck pain, arm pain and sciatica together with peripheral nerve disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome; he specializes in the neurosurgery of epilepsy and movement disorders in both adults and children, with a nationwide, as well as international, referral base for both disorders. 

As Lead Clinician for the Department of Neurosurgery at King’s College Hospital, he is responsible for one of the largest departments in Great Britain. Much of his work centres around the use of multidisciplinary teams to ensure the right patient reaches the right clinician. This is particularly important for spinal disorders, when both surgical and non-surgical techniques must be combined to obtain the optimum outcome for the individual.

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Mr Tolias has been a Consultant Neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital since September 2005. He has a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Warwick and extensive research experience in traumatic brain injury and the mechanisms of brain cell death. He undertook specialist training in neurosurgery in Liverpool and Birmingham followed by a Clinical Fellowship in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He is the Lead Neurovascular Surgeon at King’s College Hospital and the Associate Clinical Director for Trauma.

He is the first surgeon in the UK to perform the non-occlusive cerebral vascular bypass technique. In addition to his expertise in degenerative spine disease which includes the management of back and neck pain, arm pain and sciatica together with peripheral nerve disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome; he has specialist expertise in the management of neurovascular conditions (e.g. cerebral aneurysms, AVMs, Cavernomas, AV fistulas), the surgical treatment of stroke (decompressive craniectomy and revascularisation for Moya-Moya, Sickle Cell Anaemia and trauma. His expertise extends to the use of radiosurgery (CyberKnife and GammaKnife) for the treatment of such conditions.

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Nazir Rampersaud

Research Scientist

Dr. Nazir Rampersaud is a research fellow at the UCL School of Pharmacy specializing in the development and testing of novel compounds for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. More specifically, Dr. Rampersaud's current research entails examining Exendin-4, a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist, in the treatment of both motor and nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson pathology. His research has been funded by Parkinson's UK, the Cure Parkinson's Trust, and the Michael J. Fox foundation.


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