Michael Hutchinson - Curriculum Vitae#

• Honorary Consultant Neurologist, St Vincent’s University Hospital (1978 - present)
  
• Newman Clinical Research Professor, University College Dublin (2002 - present)
  
• Degrees: BSc (Anatomy) 1st Class Hons 1966 (QUB); MB BCh BAO 2nd Class Hons 1969 (QUB); FRCP (Lond) 1985: FRCPI 1996.
  
• Medical Council Registration number: 05469

Distinctions:

• Conway Medal 1968 & Milroy Medal 1969
  
• Graves Medal and Lecture (RCPI) 1985
  
• Pringle Lecture (MS Society Ireland) 2010
  
• Association of British Neurologists Medal 2014

Academic/ Research activity

• Associate Editor: Multiple Sclerosis Journal (2011 - 2016)
  
• Chairman: Organising Committee 17th European Committee for Research and Treatment in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) Dublin 2001, 2500 attendees
  
• Member of national committees: HRB Neurosciences Committee (1994 - 2006); Dept of Health: Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease Advisory Committee (1997 - 2006);
  
• Member of international expert consensus groups convened by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (USA)
  
• 2009: Differential diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.2010: McDonald Criteria on diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. 2013: Vision in multiple sclerosis.
  

INVITED LECTURES

Oxford, St Margaret’s College: British Neurotoxin Network: September 2019: “The non-motor syndrome of cervical dystonia; should it influence management?”

Nottingham University: July 2017: “Temporal discrimination in Dystonia: a hypothesis generator” Department of Neurology Grand Round.

Tübingen: May 2017: “Temporal discrimination in Dystonia: a hypothesis generator” Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research and the Department of Neurology of the University Hospital Tübingen.

Grenoble: 2015 Nov: “Temporal discrimination: a mediational endophenotype indicates mechanisms in adult-onset dystonia.” Institut des Neurosciences de Grenoble.

Arizona 2015: January: American Academy of Neurology: Breakthroughs in Neurology, “Preventing progressive MS” Phoenix, Arizona.

2015: March: COST meeting on Dystonia: Dubrovnik: Temporal discrimination in Dystonia: environmental and epigenetic mechanisms. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Rome 2015: May: 5th Biennial Workshop on Dystonia and Parkinsonism, “Molecules, circuits and targets to aim for in dystonia and dyskinesia” Rome.

Research Funding:

2012-2017: Health Research Board of Ireland. Clinical Scientist Award 2012: Awarded € 0.8 million over 5 years as Principal investigator. Project Title: The temporal discrimination threshold as a mediational endophenotype in adult onset primary torsion dystonia. (2013-2018)

Member, Medical Advisory Board, a) Natalizumab in RR Multiple Sclerosis (AFFIRM), 2002-05. b) BG12 in RRMS (CONFIRM)(Biogen-Idec) 2007- 2012.

Referee: Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Journal of Neurology, Brain, Lancet Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis Journal, Neurology.

Member Data Monitoring committee

CUPID study of cannabinoids in SPMS (2008-2011), SOLAR study of Vitamin D in RRMS (2011- ): MS-SMART (UK) 2014-.

Research Interests: Multiple Sclerosis, Dystonia, Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia.

Publications: more than 340 in peer reviewed international journals to 2023

THREE PUBLICATIONS IN NEJM & TEN IN BRAIN.