Consultant Profile

Professor Amir Al-Din

Name:

Professor Amir Al-Din MB ChB FRCP

Practising at:

Spire Leeds Hospital and Spire Methley Park Hospital

Specialties:

Neurology
- Headache

Special clinical interests:

Neurology Medico-legal reports
Headache and neurological aspects of facial pain syndromes in particular chronic daily headache
Facial pain
Chronic Migraine - including Botox® injection treatment
Cluster headache and other trigeminal autonomic cephalgias
Headaches in association with myofascial pain syndromes
Menstural migraine
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Trigeminal and other cranial neuralgias

Research interests:

Headache
The epidemiology of multiple sclerosis
Neuro-Genetics

Current NHS and /or university posts:

Consultant Neurologist, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds

Year of first medical qualification:

1972

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:

Member, Royal College of Physicians
Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (London and Edinburgh)
Member, British Association of Neurologists
Member, American Academy of Neurology

Contact Details

Telephone number to make a private appointment:

0113 218 5908/9 or 0113 218 5967/77

Private secretary:

Carol Jepson and Rebecca Hodgetts

Private secretary telephone number:

01924 542255

Private secretary fax:

01924 542426

Private secretary email address:

aldinsecretary@hotmail.co.uk

Background Information

Professional profile:

Professor Amir Al-Din trained in Neurology in the UK at the Midland Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

He has been a consultant neurologist since 1983 and has practiced in different parts of the world including the Middle East - where he held the Chair of Neurology, New Zealand and UK. He has been a consultant neurologist at Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield since 1995. He has been running an active general neurology and headache service.