Improving diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's disease

Fellow of the Royal College Physicians, London
Member of the Association of British Neurologists
Member of the Movement Disorder Society, USA
Member of the American Academy of Neurology

Dr Paul Worth is consultant in neurology and lead clinician in Parkinson's disease (PD) and movement disorders at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. He trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and in neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square in London. His main research was as a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellow at the Institute of Neurology, London, in the genetics of movement disorders including PD and the inherited cerebellar ataxias for which he was awarded a PhD. He has developed the local clinical service for patients with PD, which is cited on the Parkinson's UK website as an example of best practice. His team was short listed for the Hospital Doctor Parkinson's Team of the Year Award in 2006.

Dr Worth is interested in ways of improving the delivery of heath care services to patients with PD, including the appropriate use of coordinated community services. He is also interested in ways of improving diagnostic accuracy in PD and finding ways of predicting who is most at risk of developing the disease.

Dr Worth is Research Director for PD in the Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disease Research Network (DeNDRoN) East Anglia, and is a member of the national DeNDRoN PD Clinical Studies Group.