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Dr Michael Zandi
923
Institute of Neurology
Queen Square
London
WC1N 3BG
Appointment
- Honorary Associate Professor
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
- Faculty of Brain Sciences
Biography
I trained in medical and veterinary sciences Tripos at Clare College Cambridge (part II in Experimental Psychology with Prof Barry Everitt), clinical medicine at Cambridge with elective as externe in neurology at the Salpêtrière, Paris with Bertrand Fontaine, then general medical training to MRCP(UK). I did my neurology training in Cambridge, Norwich and London, as part of an Eastern Region Neuroscience Fellowship with PhD at Cambridge University in biomarkers of neuropsychiatric lupus and NMDAR encephalitis, with time in the laboratories of Professor Alasdair Coles in Cambridge, and Professor Angela Vincent at Oxford University. Elected FRCP Jun 2018. I have funding support from the UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre.
I am Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and
Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London and Honorary Associate Professor in
the University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Department of Neuromuscular Diseases.
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Research Summary
We are working on the neurological and psychiatric complications of Covid-19 (with Manji, Brown, Hoskote, Jager, Paterson, Checkley, Longley, Houlihan, Houlden, Hardy and colleagues at UCL, Coronerve UK Group) T cell biology of autoimmune encephalitis with MRC support (Brown, Lunn, Morris), neuroimmunology of catatonia with Wellcome Trust support (Rogers, Lewis, David), CNS immunity in systemic Lupus Erythematosus with BMA support (Abrol, Isenberg), neuroimmunology of CNS disorders (with Lunn, Hart and colleagues in the Neuroimmunology laboratory at UCL/UCLH)
We are interested in developing collaborations and interested to hear from prospective students at any level.
Our paper in Brain on the neurological complications of Covid-19 features in the following media and editorials: Guardian, New York Times, This Week in Virology (TWIV), Science, El Pais, Le Figaro, BBC Science Focus interview with Rachel Brown, The Conversation, BBC feature by Fergus Walsh with Arvind Chandratheva and Michael Zandi, BBC Radio Scotland interview with Ross Paterson, France 5 C dans l’air feature including interview with Michael Zandi, CBS News interview with Hadi Manji, 95bFM New Zealand Radio interview and Radio New Zealand interview with Jasper Morrow, Deutsche Welle interview with Sarah Wiethoff, Jornal da Cultura Brazil Michael Zandi interview, CNN interviews with Hadi Manji and Michael Zandi, Royal Society of Medicine Covid-19 conference with Hadi Manji, TV3 Catalunya Michael Zandi interview, MSNBC Michael Zandi interview, BBC North West interview with Laura Benjamin, New York Times, Nature, Patricia McNamara Irish Times interview.
Teaching Summary
I teach and lecture on UCL Queen Square MSc courses and co-supervise MSc students (Hannah Priday, co-supervised with Prof David Werring and Prof Angela Vincent), previous UCL MSc students Eleanor Taylor (library); David Robaldo
(library completed) and Alexis Cassecuelle (lab completed, with Dr Rob
Pitceathly); and co-supervise PhD fellows (Dr Rachel Brown and Dr Jonathan Rogers). I lecture also for KCL MSc neuropsychiatry courses and other regional training days.
Selected recent and upcoming invited Lectures
12 October 2017 - Association of British Neurologists autumn meeting, London
21 March 2018 - King's College London Immunopsychiatry meeting, London
25 June 2018 - Royal College of Psychiatrists, Birmingham
20 September 2018 - British Society of Rheumatology Case Based Conference, London
8 October 2018 - Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty of Old Age Psychiatrists winter meeting, London
19 October 2018 - East Anglian Regional Neurological Association, Norwich
2 November 2018 - British Medical Journal Practical Neurology Masterclass, London
28 Mar 2019 - Queen Square Leading Edge Course, London
24 July 2019 - Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust academic meeting, London
2 Oct 2019 - UCL Institute of Mental Health first symposium: immunopsychiatry, London
15 July 2020 - SINAPPS2 trial webinar, UK
8 August 2020 - McGill University, Montreal
28 August 2020 - Washington University Julius Axelrod Brain series lecture, Washington
4 September 2020 - Eastern Network for Rare Autoimmune Diseases, Stevenage/Cambridge
Appointments
| 09-JUL-2019 | Honorary Associate Professor | Neuromuscular Diseases | Queen Square Institute of Neurology, United Kingdom |
