Professor John Duncan
Professor John Duncan is Professor of Neurology at the Institute of Neurology, University College London. He is Head of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Medical Director of the National Society for Epilepsy. His research focuses on imaging the structure and function of the brain in epilepsy using magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography.
Professor Duncan qualified from Oxford University Medical School in 1979. After training in general medicine, and then clinical neurology in Oxford and London, he was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Neurology at the Institute of Neurology in 1989. He first became interested in epilepsy when working with John Oxbury in Oxford, and then with Simon Shorvon at the Institute of Neurology.
His work in brain imaging has progressed with the establishment of the National Society for Epilepsy MR Unit in 1995 and the opening of the Sir William Gowers Epilepsy Assessment Centre in 2002. This Centre adjoins the MR Unit, and this facilitates the investigation and scanning of patients and helps to ensure that clinically relevant questions are addressed, and that solutions are applied to clinical practice.
Contact details
Professor John Duncan
Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
Institute of Neurology, University College London
and
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN)
National Society for Epilepsy (NSE)
E-mail:
JDuncan@EPILEPSYNSE.co.uk or
E-mail:
j.duncan@ion.ucl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7916 0207
+44 (0)20 7837 3611 ext 4259 (UCL, NHNN)
+44 (0)14 9460 1341 (NSE)
Fax: +44 (0)20 7837 3941 (UCL, NHNN)
+44 (0)14 9487 6294 (NSE)
Biographical information correct as at 2 December 2002.
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