Robin Howard PhD FRCP FFICM Robin Howard trained in medicine in Cambridge and at the Middlesex Hospital. His neurology training was in Oxford, London, and at the National Hospital Queen Square. He undertook his PhD in the Sobell Department of Neurophysiology at the Institute of Neurology. He has been a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital, Queen Square, and St. Thomas’ Hospital, honorary Associate professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, and honorary civilian adviser to the Royal Navy since 1992. He was head of service for a large general neurological practice at St. Thomas’ Hospital and neurologist to three intensive care units. He was senior neurologist to specialist units for the care of patients with myasthenia gravis, motor neuron disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and post- polio syndrome at both Queen Square and St Thomas’ hospitals and has written and lectured extensively on each of the subjects. He has been a senior editor and contributor to all three editions of Neurology: A Queen Square Textbook.

Dimitri Kullmann FRCP FMedSci FRS Dimitri Kullmann trained in medicine in Oxford and London and completed a DPhil in Oxford. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Francisco, he trained in neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and established a laboratory focusing on synaptic transmission at the Institute of Neurology. He is now a professor of neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and honorary consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. His research interests include the fundamental mechanisms of synapse function, neurological channelopathies and gene therapy for epilepsy. He was the Editor of Brain from 2014 to 2020 and is on the Editorial Board of Neuron. He was made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001 and of the Royal Society in 2018.

David Werring PhD FRCP FESO David Werring trained in medicine at Guy’s Hospital Medical School and in neurology in London. He was appointed as a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square in 2005. He is Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Stroke Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, and honorary consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He delivers acute and outpatient stroke care and leads a research programme focussed on intracerebral haemorrhage and cerebral small vessel disease. He is head of the Research Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, chair of the Association of British Neurologists Stroke Advisory Group, stroke specialty lead for the National Institute for Health Research North Thames Clinical Research Network, President- Elect of the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians, and editorial board member of the European Journal of Neurology, European Stroke Journal, International Journal of Stroke and Practical Neurology. David Werring chaired the UK Stroke Forum 2020-2022

Michael Zandi PhD FRCP Michael Zandi trained in medicine in Cambridge, and completed neurology training in Cambridge, Norwich and London, and a PhD in Cambridge with time in the laboratory of Professor Angela Vincent at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford. He is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. His research interests include the mechanisms, natural history and clinical treatments of autoimmune encephalitis, cerebral amyloid angiopathy related inflammation, neuroimmunology broadly, and the role of inflammation and autoimmunity in cognitive and psychiatric disorders. He has advised NHS England, the Royal College of Physicians and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

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