Dr Salman Haider details
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Location:
- University College Hospital
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
GMC/GDC number:
6088951
Professional background
Dr Salman Haider graduated from Guy’s and St.Thomas’ in 2004 with an intercalated Neuroscience BSc (hons) with laboratory project in axon guidance and a full university blue (Football). He undertook medical training on the Barts and London rotation, acute medical training as a registrar for one year in London before specialising in neurology. He undertook a PhD in Huntington’s Disease, conducting the first UK trial for a potential disease modifying therapy at the UCLH Clinical Research Facility and novel biomarkers (optical coherence tomography). He was awarded clinical tutor of year in 2014.
He is a senior lecturer at UCL and was involved in Distance Learning in Neurology between 2019-2023.
He developed a five-question tool for headache and piloted the UK’s first neurology same day emergency care service in 2020, launching it fully in 2021 and substantiating it in 2025.
He also launched UK first Clinical Video Assessment for Stroke (CVAS) with Rob Simister and developed the training for the programme.
Specialties
Research interests
- Teaching and education
- Clinical trials
- Clinical video assessment for stroke
- Acute neurological presentations to A&E, including stroke, TIA, mimics, headache, dizziness, seizures, functional neurological disorders
- Acute neurology service delivery, including Neurology Same Day Emergency Care (NeuroSDEC)
Languages spoken
French, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, German
Publications
- William Bierrum, Jonathan Ian Spencer, Roberto Macarimban, Ayala Shirazi, Agampodi-Umanda Dethabrew, Isaiah See, Alun Marc Henry, Anne Schlattl, Ali-Jesus Alim-Marvasti, Michelle Balaratnam, Arvind Chandratheva, Tim Baruah, Robert Simister, Salman Haider. Novel pathways for headache via neurology same day emergency care: admission avoidance, prevention of lumbar punctures and reduced length of stay in hospital. 2024 Dec 31;13(4):e003036. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2024-003036.
- Haider, S., Shoai, M., Shah, R., Turner, C., & Bahra, A. (2024). Novel screening tool for secondary headache in acute care—A pilot study. Clinical Medicine, 24(2). doi:10.1016/j.clinme.2023.100005
- Bierrum, W. & Haider, S., Balaratnam, M., Alim-Marvasti, A., Chandratheva, A., Simister, R., . . . Kaski, D. (2023). Hyperacute vestibular syndrome: the role of an acute vertigo service. Frontiers in Stroke, 2. doi:10.3389/fstro.2023.1265009
- Kaski, D., Koohi, N., Haider, S., Chandratheva, A., & Simister, R. (2023). The hyperacute vestibular syndrome: ear or brain?. Lancet Neurology, 22(5), 377-378. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(23)00115-1
- Balaratnam MS, Rugg-Gunn FJ , Okin R, Powell F, Prior S, Petrochilos P, Shivji D , Haider S , Alim-Marvasti A, Chandratheva A, Simister R, Lane C, Macarimban R, Kaski D, Yates T, Rajakulendran S, Christofi G, Sandford J, Ingram A, Bluston K, Odejide O, Gungor G, Nkrumah E, Markey D, Hotton G, Sidle K, Kennedy J, Penniall L, Plum H, Antoniou A, Prema R, Jeffries N, Walters C, Stevenson VL, Drysdale M, Tasnim S, Mackay L, Baulk R, Capp A, Turner P, Turner C. (2024) An Integrated Approach to Neuroscience Care: An Innovative Model to Support the New Integrated Care System. Clinical Medicine doi.org/10.1016/j.clinme.2024.100234
- Wilson H, Niccolini F, Haider S, et al. Loss of extra-striatal phosphodiesterase 10A expression in early premanifest Huntington's disease gene carriers. J Neurol Sci. 2016 Sep 15;368:243-8.
- Nicolini, F, Haider S et al. Altered PDE-10A signaling detectable decades before onset in Huntington’s disease. Brain, Volume 138, Issue 10, 1 October 2015, Pages 3016–3029
- Süssmuth SD, Haider S et al. An exploratory double-blind, randomized clinical trial with selisistat in Huntington's disease. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 79(3):465-476 01 Mar 2015