Andrew Lees#
Membership Number: | 6279 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
Elected: | 2022 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lees_(neurologist) |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-2476-4385 |
Twitter: | https://twitter.com/ajlees |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 Professor of Neurology, University College London
- 1999 Visiting Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool
- 1982 Honorary Consultant Neurologist, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square
- 2002 - 2012 Director, Sara Koe PSP Research Centre, Institute of Neurology
- 1998 - 2012 Director of Research Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, UCL
- 1985 - 2012 Clinical Director, Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders, Institute of Neurology London
- 2004 - 2007 President Movement Disorder Society
- 2000 - 2002 President, European Section of Movement Disorder Society
Fields of Scholarship
- Parkinson’s disease
- Neuropsychiatry
- History of neurology
- Movement disorders
- Progressive supranulear palsy
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Chester L Stephens Sr. Lecture, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa
- 2019 FitzPatrick Lecture of RCP
- 2018 - 2020 Honorary Professor, Centre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, QMUL
- 2017 FRCP(Ed)
- 2009 FMedSci
- 1987 FRCP
- 2017 Parkinson Canada’s Donald Calne Award and Lectureship
- 2016 Bing Spear Award for outstanding contributions towards saner drug policies
- 2015 ABN Medallist
- 2014 Jay Van Andel award for outstanding research in Parkinson’s disease
- 2012 German Society of Neurology Dingebauer Prize recipient
- 2011 Honorary Elected Foreign Member to Academia Nacional de Medicina, Brazil
- 2007 10th Gowers Memorial Lecture, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- 2000 Annual Memorial Charles Smith Lecture, University of Jerusalem
- 1997 Fernando Pombeu Guest Lecture, Universidade Federal, Rio de Janeiro
- 1996 Academia de Neurologia Brasileira (elected)
- 1991 Member Sociedad de Neurlogia Espanola (elected)
- 1990 - 1992 Association of British Neurologist (Council Member)
- 1990 Membre Étrangère Société Français de Neurologie (elected)
- 1988 - 1995 MRC Advisory Panel
- 1979 Fellow Royal Society of Medicine