Michael Swash - Curriculum Vitae#

Michael Swash MD FRCP FRCPath H-index 92

Emeritus Professor of Neurology, Barts and the London School of Medicine, QMUL UKHon Consultant Neurologist, Royal London Hospital, London UKHon Professor (Neurology), Institute of Neuroscience, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Student: The London Hospital Medical College, London and University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, USA. Graduated 1962

Post graduate: Neurosurgery at The Royal London Hospital; Medicine at Royal United Hospital, Bath; 3-year Neurology Residency at University Hospitals (CWRU), Cleveland, Ohio USA; Neurophysiology Fellowship, Washington University at St Louis, St Louis, Missouri USA, Neuropathology and further Neurology experience at Royal London Hospital; further Neurophysiology experience at Uppsala University, Sweden; Umea University, Sweden; and Baylor College of Medicine, Texas USA

Publications: 675 peer-reviewed publications in clinical neurology, neuropathology and neurophysiology - focussing on clinical neurology (136), neuromuscular disease (114), Alzheimer dementia (27), ALS (206), faecal and urinary incontinence (144)

17 books, including Neuromuscular Disorders (3 editions), Hutchison’s Clinical Methods (multiple editions), and several neurology monographs and other textbooks.

Total publications >950

Contributions to neurology: I consider that my role in reconstituting the Royal London Hospital as a centre of excellence in Neurology has been crucial – this was the hospital of Hughlings Jackson, Henry Head, George Riddoch, Lord Brain and Ronald Henson in Neurology; Sir Hugh Cairns and DWC Northfield in Neurosurgery; and Hugh Turnbull, Dorothy Russell, Lucien Rubinstein, and Henry Urich in Neuropathology.

More widely, my role in reforming medical care in East London, as led by The Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals, by merging these two old and proud teaching hospitals and re-providing their special departments into much larger entities, equipped with modern diagnostic facilities has revolutionised the care level they provide locally and nationally.

Teaching etc: Extensive experience in medical education, medical editing and hospital management: Past Chairman Motor Neurone Disease Association; ex-foundation Medical Director, Royal London Hospital NHS Trust; ex-Chief Medical Officer SwissRe, London; MRC Neuroscience Board etc. Various prizes. Many invited lectureships to neurological and surgical societies across the world. My textbooks and monographs have been influential in many different countries, several translated into Chinese, Russian or Spanish.

Happily, many of my Research Fellows, and Clinical Registrars from Britain, and abroad, especially from European countries, India, Hong Kong, Japan, Asutralia and New Zealand, South America, and North America have taken positions of influence in their home countries.

In Neurology, continuing work, mostly in Lisbon, related to human neurophysiology, ALS; and in London further studies of pelvic floor diseases.

Current major project: A book on the role of the London Hospital in the development of medical and surgical specialties, education and research in hospital care since its foundation in 1740.

I retired from clinical work 3 years ago, but continue to contribute in research, and in publications.