Dr Tabish Saifee, Consultant Neurologist
Dr Tabish Saifee
Consultant Neurologist
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About Dr Tabish Saifee
GMC number: 6079635
Year qualified: 2003
Place of primary qualification: University of London
Dr Tabish Saifee is a Consultant Neurologist at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, where he runs an outpatient and inpatient service for patients with movement disorders. He is also a Consultant Neurologist at London North West Healthcare NHS Trust where he runs a Neurology service seeing patients with all neurological disorders. He has expertise in movement disorders and has a particular interest in tremor, dystonia and Parkinson’s disease.
Dr Saifee qualified at University College London Medical School and undertook higher specialist training on the coveted NIHR academic training scheme at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and The Royal Free London. He was awarded a fellowship from the National Institute for Health Research and was awarded a PhD on his original work on the clinical aspects and pathophysiological mechanisms of tremor.
Dr Saifee has an active role in Neurology postgraduate and undergraduate education for which he has been awarded multiple prizes. He has published over 45 original articles in international peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. He currently runs the Queen Square PACES course, the Queen Square Leading Edge course, the Queen Square Neurology Specialty Certificate Examination revision course and as well as teaching and module lead on Masters and Diploma courses at Queen Square. He is on the course committees for the distance diploma and the Masters in Clinical Neurology. During his higher specialist training, he was elected representative across London. He is a member of the Association of British Neurologists and the Movement Disorder Society.
Areas of expertise
- Abnormal gait
- Acquired brain injury
- Alzheimer's disease
- Amnesia
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Arm pain
- Ataxia
- Back pain
- Brain metastasis
- Brain MRI
- Brain tumour
- Cavernoma
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Chiari malformations
- Chordoma
- Chorea
- Chronic fatigue
- Chronic headache
- Chronic pain
- Cluster headaches
- Cognitive impairment
- Cognitive stimulation therapy
- Coronavirus
- CT scan (CAT)
- Degenerative nerve disease
- Dementia
- Diabetic neuropathy (diabetes pain)
- Dizziness
- Dystonia
- Epilepsy
- Facial pain
- Functional neurological disorder
- Headache
- Huntington's disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Instability and falls
- Loss of consciousness
- Medicolegal
- Memory disorder
- Migraine
- Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
- Movement disorders
- Multiple sclerosis
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myelitis
- Myopathies
- Narcolepsy
- Neck pain
- Neuralgia
- Neurological disorders
- Neurological treatments
- Neuromuscular disease
- Neuropathic pain
- Paraneoplastic syndromes
- Parasomnias
- Parkinsonism
- Parkinson's disease
- PoTS syndrome
- Quadriplegia
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sciatica
- Seizures
- Skull base surgery
- Skull base tumours
- Sleep disorders
- Spasticity
- Stroke
- Subdural haematoma
- Tension headache
- Traumatic brain injury
- Tremor
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Vascular dementia
- Vertigo
- Visual snow
- Whiplash