Professor Michael Samuel

Professional Profile

Professor Samuel is a Consultant Neurologist with specialist interest in movement disorders, deep brain stimulation and botulinum toxin.  His formal training took place in the UK (Oxford University, Newcastle upon Tyne, Royal College of Physicians) and he completed the Movement Disorders Fellowship in Ontario, Canada in 2002.  Following this, he was appointed to Consultant Neurologist by East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust and King’s College Hospital in 2002.  Professor Samuel is co-lead of the deep brain stimulation for movement disorders. He has supervised Fellows, and was an Investigator for Parkinson’s disease studies at King’s College Hospital.

Professor Samuel is a member of the Association of British Neurologists, Movement Disorders Society, British Medical Association, British Society of Stereotaxic and Functional Neurosurgery, Clinical Study Group for the Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disease Research Network (DeNDRoN, UK) and the Medical Defence Union.

He is a reviewer for several movement disorders academic journals.

Memberships & Associations

• Association of British Neurologists
• International and Movement Disorder Society
• General Medical Council

Research & Publications

• Movement disorders
• Parkinson’s disease