Michael Swash MD FRCP FRCPath (dob 29 January 1939)

Emeritus Professor of Neurology, St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, and Honorary Consultant Neurologist, The Royal London Hospital, London E1. Honorary Professor of Neurology, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Graduated from The London Hospital Medical College, London and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA. Postgraduate training at University Hospitals of Cleveland (Case-Western Reserve University), Cleveland, Ohio, USA and Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA - 3 years postgraduate training in Neurology and Neurophysiology. MRC Research Fellow in Neuropathology and Senior Registrar in Neurology, The London Hospital. Consultant Neurologist The Royal London Hospital, and at St Mark's Hospital, London. Now Emeritus Professor of Neurology, University of London. Member of various British, American, European and Australasian Neurological and other Medical Societies. Member of Neuroscience Board of the Medical Research Council (1987-1991).Visiting Lecturer/Professor at centres in Western and Eastern Europe, USA, Canada, Far East, South America and Australasia. Editorial Boards of various neurological and other journals. Ombudsman for The Lancet. Publications (500+) in clinical neurology, clinical neurophysiology, neuromuscular diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, pelvic floor disorders, including faecal and urinary incontinence. Author 17 medical books and monographs, including Hutchison’s Clinical Methods” (22^nd edition 2007). Spinoza Visiting Professor, University of Amsterdam 1999-2000. Forbes Norris international prize for research and care in MND/ALS 2000. Kugelberg Lecturer, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Various other medals and prizes. CMO SwissRe Life and Health.Previously Chairman, Research Ethics Committee, East London and City Health Authority, (1994-2001). Chairman, World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases (1997-2005). Chairman, Motor Neurone Disease Association (UK), and Chairman of Board of Trustees, MNDA (1998-2001) etc.