David John Werring (born October 1967) is a British physician,

neurologist Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal c ...

, and academic specialising in

stroke A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop functionin ...

. He is

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Neurology Neurology (from el, wikt:νεῦρον, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine), medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of co ...

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 ...

and current head of Stroke Research Centre and the department of Brain Repair & Rehabilitation at UCL.

Career

Werring received his Bachelor in

Neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

s in 1989 and his Bachelor in Medicine/Bachelor in Surgery from

Guy's Hospital Medical School GKT School of Medical Education (abbreviated: GKT) is the medical school of King's College London. The school has campuses at three institutions, Guy's Hospital (Southwark), King's College Hospital (Denmark Hill) and St Thomas' Hospital (Lambeth ...

in 1992. He became a Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (MRCP) in 1995 and finished his PhD in clinical neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in 2000. After completing his clinical training in neurology and stroke medicine in 2004, he was appointed consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery,

University College Hospital University College Hospital (UCH) is a teaching hospital in the Fitzrovia area of the London Borough of Camden, England. The hospital, which was founded as the North London Hospital in 1834, is closely associated with University College London ...

and

Watford General Hospital Watford General Hospital is a 521-bed acute District General Hospital situated on Vicarage Road, Watford, Hertfordshire. Together with Hemel Hempstead Hospital and St Albans City Hospital, it is operated by West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust ...

in 2005. Werring was made

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in clinical neurology and honorary consultant neurologist in 2008, became a fellow of the

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(FRCP) in 2012 and was made

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at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in 2015. In 2017, he became head of the research department of Brain Repair & Rehabilitation at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Werring is a recognized expert in the field of

, and he is the head of UK Stroke Forum since 2021 and the president-elect of the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians since 2022.

Scientific expertise

The core field of research of Werring is stroke, in particular cerebral small vessel disease,

intracerebral hemorrhage Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, intraparenchymal bleed, and hemorrhagic stroke, or haemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into Intraparenchymal hemorrhage, the tissues of the brain, into its Intraventricular hemor ...

and

cerebral amyloid angiopathy Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a form of angiopathy in which amyloid beta peptide deposits in the walls of small to medium blood vessels of the central nervous system and meninges. The term ''congophilic'' is sometimes used because the pre ...

. He published more than 300 peer-reviewed article on those topics and in other fields of clinical neurology. Werring led several studies investigating cerebral microbleeds and has expertise in neuroimaging, with a focus on brain

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. He is currently the primary investigator of a large multi-centre study investigating the timing of oral anticoagulation after ischemic stroke, founded by the

British Heart Foundation The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is a cardiovascular research charity in the United Kingdom. It funds medical research related to heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors, and runs influencing work aimed at shaping public policy ...

and has been involved in several studies investigating the influence of

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and respective vaccines on stroke. He is the author of more than 350 articles in scientific journals with a

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of 90, editor of the Queen Square textbook of Neurology and an editorial board member of several high-impact scientific journals, including the European Stroke Journal, International Journal of Stroke and the

European Journal of Neurology The ''European Journal of Neurology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that covers all aspects of neurology. It was established in 1994 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the European Academy of Neurology. The editor-in-chie ...

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Werring, David 1967 births Living people British neurologists Academics of University College London Alumni of King's College London