Dr Neil Graham

Dr Graham is a consultant neurologist based at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN). He studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and University College London, and completed his specialist training in neurology in London (Imperial/Queen Square).  

He was awarded a PhD from Imperial College London for work developing ultrasensitive tests to diagnose brain injury and understanding post-traumatic neurodegeneration (Imperial Health Charity and Alzheimer’s Research UK), which he extended in an Academic Clinical Lectureship (NIHR), and in a Post-CCT Career Development Grant (Alzheimer’s Society).  

His sub-specialist interests are in traumatic brain injury (‘TBI’), sometimes termed ‘concussion’, neurodegenerative dementia, including conditions such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (‘CTE’), and the development and evaluation of health technologies. He is a member of the Association of British Neurologists Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer’s Research UK Clinical Advisory Groups, served on the US NIH/NINDS Post-TBI AD/ADRD research prioritisation group, and contributed to the international NINDS TBI Reclassification workshop at the US National Institutes of Health incorporating novel fluid biomarkers into injury diagnosis.