Dr William Scotton is a consultant neurologist specialising in movement disorders and cognitive neurology at The Harborne Hospital in Birmingham. He holds an NHS consultant appointment at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and is an Honorary Consultant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

He assesses a broad range of neurological symptoms, including tremor, memory problems, headaches, dizziness, seizures, weakness and balance difficulties. His specialist interests include Parkinson's disease, atypical parkinsonian syndromes, frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease. He runs NHS movement disorder and cognitive neurology clinics alongside a general neurology service.

Dr Scotton studied at the University of Oxford before graduating in medicine with distinction from Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Medical School. He undertook subspecialist training at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and completed a Wellcome Trust-funded PhD at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. His qualifications include MBBS, PhD and FRCP.

He is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham and leads the West Midlands Initiative for Neurodegeneration, which aims to improve regional access to clinical trials and develop treatments for neurodegenerative disease. His research has appeared in journals including Brain and The Lancet Neurology. In clinical consultations, he works with patients and their families to explain findings and discuss individual treatment plans.