Dr Salwa Kamourieh details
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Location:
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
GMC/GDC number:
6163924
Professional background
Dr Salwa Kamourieh is a consultant neurologist at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK.
She trained at Imperial College London and completed her general medical training in Southwest London, leading to obtaining the MRCP in 2010 and subsequently received a PhD at Imperial College London and completed her residency in Neurology at Imperial College NHS Trust. She became interested in managing headache disorders during her training and took up a consultant post at Queen Square in 2020.
Dr Kamourieh works as a headache and facial pain specialist, focusing on the management of primary refractory headache disorders, including chronic migraine, vestibular migraine, tension-type headaches, and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias. This expertise extends to the management of intractable headaches and facial pain with neurostimulation.
In addition to working with adult patients, she is also interested in managing headaches in 16-18-year-olds, collaborating closely with the children, their parents, general practitioners, and their schools.
Dr. Kamourieh has a special interest in women's health, working with women at various stages of their lives, from menstrual migraines to pregnancy and through perimenopause and menopause.
Dr. Kamourieh has authored several scientific papers and is actively involved in the ABN Headache SIG, as well as serving on the board of the Anglo-Dutch Migraine Association. She has published multiple papers on headaches and is frequently invited to deliver educational lectures for various healthcare professionals.
Specialties
Research interests
Complex headache, facial pain, women and headaches, 16-18 year old headache management
Languages spoken
Arabic
Publications
- Hatab, Mustapha R., Salwa W. Kamourieh, and Diane M. Twickler. "MR volume of the fetal cerebellum in relation to growth." Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Official Journal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 27.4 (2008): 840-845.
- Leech, Robert, et al. "Fractionating the default mode network: distinct contributions of the ventral and dorsal posterior cingulate cortex to cognitive control." Journal of Neuroscience 31.9 (2011): 3217-3224.
- Kamourieh, Salwa, et al. "Neural systems involved when attending to a speaker." Cerebral Cortex 25.11 (2015): 4284-4298.
- Kamourieh, Salwa, et al. "Natalizumab granule cell neuronopathy: FDG-PET in diagnosis and immune reconstitution with G-CSF." Neurology-Neuroimmunology Neuroinflammation 4.5 (2017).
- Kamourieh, Salwa, et al. "Speech registration in symptomatic memory impairment." Frontiers in aging neuroscience 10 (2018): 201.
- Kamourieh, Salwa, Susie Lagrata, and Manjit Singh Matharu. "Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation is beneficial in chronic paroxysmal hemicrania." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 90.9 (2019): 1072-1074.
- Best, Jonathan, Salwa Kamourieh, and Cath Mummery. "11.27 Understanding variability in UK acute neurology services: what works, and what doesn’t?." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 90.12 (2019): A2.