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Keynote Speaker BiographyJohn Rothwell
After receiving a PhD from the University of London, UK, in 1980, Professor Rothwell worked in London as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Neurology Department of the Institute of Psychiatry until 1988, before moving as a Senior scientist to the Medical Research Council Human Movement and Balance Unit at the Institute of Neurology. In that period he developed his current interests in the pathophysiology of human movement disorders, with a particular interest in Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, myoclonus and stroke. This was also a time of great expansion in the new technique of transcranial magnetic stimulation, which he and others developed for the study of the human cortical motor system. He was Acting Director of the Unit in 1998 before being appointed to be Head of the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders at the Institute of Neurology in London. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1994. Professor Rothwell has extensive experience in as a journal editor, having served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Physiology and Clinical Neurophysiology. He was deputy editor of the journal Brain from 1997-2004 and is presently managing editor of Experimental Brain Research and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Neurophysiology, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair and Brain Stimulation. With Dr Richard Greenwood he organised the recent Cumberland Consensus Conference on Stroke Rehabilitation in London 2007. |
