Nick Ward#
| Membership Number: | 6311 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/research/research-departments/clinical-and-movement-neurosciences/people/ward-lab |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7688-9649 |
| Twitter: | @dr_nickward |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-nick-ward/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017/10 - present Professor in Clinical Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London
- 2011/10 - 2017/09 Reader in Clinical Neurology, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London
- 2008/08-2011/09 HEFCE Clinical Senior Lecturer, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London
- 2004/08-2008/07 Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London
- 2003/12 - present Honorary Consultant Neurologist, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London
- 2000/07 - 2003/12 Clinical Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London
- 1999/12 - 2000/06 Clinical Fellow in Stroke Medicine, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London
- 1996/04 - 1999/11 Specialist Registrar in Neurology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery & The Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, London
- 1995/05 - 1996/03 Senior House Officer in Neurology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London.
- 1993/10 - 1994/09 Senior House Officer in Neurology, South East Thames Regional Neurological Unit, Brook General Hospital, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Plasticity of the human brain
- Mechanisms of functional recovery after stroke in humans
- Human functional neuroimaging
- Neurorehabilitation of stroke
- Upper limb function
Honours and Awards
- 1999 Stroke Association Clinical Fellowship in Stroke Medicine
- 2003 Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship
- 2007 Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) ‘new blood’ Clinical Senior Lecturership
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the European Stroke Organisation
- 2018 Opening Plenary Lecturer: Changing approaches to rehabilitation of the upper limb after stroke.At: 3rd Congress on Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Maastricht, Netherlands.
- 2018 The Stroke Association's Annual Royal Keynote Lecturer: Brain Plasticity: The key to stroke recovery. Delivered at the Science Museum, London, in the presence of their president, HRH Duke of Kent.
