Medical Advisors

Professor Wiebke Arlt is a Consultant Endocrinologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the William Withering Chair of Medicine and Director of the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (IMSR) at the University of Birmingham, UK. She obtained her MD at the University of Cologne, following by clinical specialist training in Endocrinology & Diabetes at the University of Wuerzburg and postdoctoral training in paediatric and molecular endocrinology at the University of California at San Francisco, CA, USA, before joining the University of Birmingham as an MRC Senior Clinical Fellow in 2004. Professor Arlt’s research focusses on the role of steroids in health and disease, with a translational focus on adrenal insufficiency, adrenal tumours and polycystic ovary syndrome. This closely links to her clinical work as a consultant providing specialist services for patients with adrenal and gonadal disorders. She has published >200 original research articles and has received several major awards.

Dr Rahul Singh trained in paediatric neurology in London and is now a consultant paediatric neurologist at Guys and St.Thomas’ Hospital, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, London since April 2015. He specialises in Neonatal and Fetal neurology, Neonatal stroke, Encephalitis/Encephalopathy, Neonatal epilepsies, Channelopathy and also Neonatal Neuromuscular diseases as well as fetal brain malformations. He continues to have interest in inflammatory brain disorders, inherited and acquired white matter diseases in children, IIH and paediatric stroke. He works closely with the white matter disease team and is involved in trials with Opsoclonus Myoclonus syndrome and is setting up regional one stop Leukodystrophy MDT services at Evelina London Children’s hospital. He is postgraduate education lead for neurology trainees and a keen educator, alongside aspiring to spread knowledge of paediatric neurology to the developing world.

Dr David Lynch is a member of the Queen Square Adult Leukodystrophy Group.  He is a Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery and the Royal Free in London.  He completed his early medical training in Dublin, before taking up a Leonard Wolfson Clinical Fellowship at the UCL Institute of Neurology.  He completed a PhD on the genetics of leukodystrophy, and has authored numerous papers on clinical and genetic aspects of these conditions in adults.  He continues to be involved in both research and the clinical care of adult patients with leukodystrophy.

Dr. Gerald Raymond is a neurologist and clinical geneticist at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore where he is also a professor of paediatrics and neurology. He obtained his MD at the University of Connecticut and was trained in paediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Neurology at the Mass. General Hospital. He subsequently received additional training in clinical genetics at the Harvard Longwood Program. Dr. Raymond previously has been director of Neurogenetic Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and division director of paediatric neurology at the University of Minnesota where he closely collaborated with the metabolic bone marrow transplant group. Dr. Raymond’s research has been at the overlap of genetics and neurology with specific focus on peroxisomal disorders including adrenoleukodystrophy.

The Queen Square Adult Leukodystrophy Group (QSALG), is a multidisciplinary group that accepts referrals from doctors throughout the UK regarding patients with undiagnosed leukodystrophy / leukoencephalopathy, with the goal of guiding those doctors in arranging appropriate investigations and making a diagnosis.  The team consists of neuroradiologists, neurologists (from cognitive, neuroinflammatory and neurogenetic specialities), and a physician in adult inherited metabolic disease, with support from neurology trainees and administrative staff. A monthly meeting is held to discuss new referrals and view brain scans and other results – with a comprehensive written report sent to each referring doctor.  A bi-annual leukodystrophy outpatient clinic is also held at Queen Square at which patients may be reviewed in person if required.

Dr Alasdair Parker trained in paediatric neurology in London and is now a consultant paediatric neurologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, where he led the East of England Paediatric Neurology Service 2003-12.