EUROPEAN PAEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY SOCIETY

Elected to the 2010-2014 Board of the EPNS 
Richard W. Newton

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Richard NEWTON Affiliation
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital

Training

  • Under-graduate Guy’s and King’s College Hospital Medical Schools London
  • Higher specialist training, Manchester Children's Hospitals

Fields of clinical and research interest
Clinical Interests: 

  • Promoting effective Clinical Networks with a special focus on children with epilepsy

Research topics: 

  • Psychosocial aspects of pregnancy and relationship to cerebral palsy
  • Febrile seizures, infantile spasms (UKISS and now ICISS study)
  • Longitudinal cohort study  of Down’s syndrome (atlanto axial instability and thyroid function)
  • Neuroimmunological basis of peri-infective encephalopathy; Predicting central nervous system relapse in leukaemia
  • Long term study of children with foetal ventriculomegaly

Memberships

  • Past President, British Paediatric Neurology Association 
  • Past President, European Association of Learning Disability Medicine (MAMH)
  • Producer BPNA Distance Learning Course