Dr Elrington

Thought you might like some info about my Neurologist -

Dr Giles Elrington qualified at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1980 with honours in Surgery, and in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. He trained in London, Oxford and Southampton. His MD thesis in the late 1980s was on cross-reactive autoimmunity between small cell lung cancer and the neuromuscular junction. Thereafter he acquired an interest in headache and since becoming a consultant in 1993 has run the Headache clinic at the Royal London Hospital, later Barts and the London NHS Trust where more recently he has done clinical trial work in headache and multiple sclerosis. From 1993 to 2001 he was also consultant neurologist in Colchester where he established the neurocare rehabilitation team. From 2001 he has has a portfolio career in which the largest growth area has been running clinics from Primary Care Trusts in Essex.

He is a former treasurer of the British Association for the Study of Headache, on the Executive Committee of the Anglo-Dutch Migraine Association, and a Director of the City of London Migraine Clinic.