Alan J. Thompson, MD, FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPI, is Dean of the Faculty of Brain Sciences at
UCL; Pro-Provost for London at
UCL; Garfield Weston Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neurorehabilitation at the
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
The UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology is an institute within the Faculty of Brain Sciences of University College London, University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. Together with the National Hospital for Neur ...
. He is also a consultant neurologist at the
University College London NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust working at the
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He is Editor-in-Chief for
Multiple Sclerosis Journal.
Career
He studied medicine at
Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1979. He subsequently trained in neurology at St Vincent’s/Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, gaining an MD under the supervision of Professor Michael Hutchinson; and at the
Royal London Hospital
The Royal London Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is part of Barts Health NHS Trust. It provides district general hospital services for the City of London and Tower Hamlets and spe ...
, and in neurology and neurorehabilitation at Queen Square’s National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. He was the clinical director of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery between 2003 and 2007. Between 2014 and 2020, he was Chair of the Neuroscience Academic Medical Centre for the UCLPartners Academic Health Science Centre. He was elected a Fellow of the
Academy of Medical Sciences
The Academy of Medical Sciences is an organisation established in the UK in 1998. It is one of the four UK National Academies, the others being the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.
Its mission is to adv ...
in 2015. He is an Emeritus Senior Investigator at the
National Institute for Health Research
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the British government’s major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research. With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21, its mission is to "impr ...
(NIHR).
Research
His main area of expertise is in the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of progressive forms of multiple sclerosis. His work focuses on the pathological mechanisms that underpin neurological disability, and on recovery through neurorehabilitation. He has published widely in high quality research journals and has an H Index o
133(Google Scholar) or 119 (Web of Science; Research ID C-2654-2008).
Awards
In 2017 he was awarded the John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research by the American Academy of Neurology National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (USA).
In 2018 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (USA).
In 2020 he was awarded the Sobek Prize by the German National MS Society and the MS Society of Baden-Württemberg.
In 2021 he was awarded the Charcot Award
for outstanding lifetime research into MS by the International Federation for MS.
External links
Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis CentreGoogle Scholar Citations - Alan J ThompsonAlan J Thompson profile at UCL Iris
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
Academics of University College London
20th-century British biologists
NIHR Senior Investigators