Giles Elrington is a General Neurologist with interest in headache, migraine, MS and neuropsychiatry. He regularly manages other common neurological diseases including Epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, spinal and peripheral nerve disease.
He qualified in 1980 from Barts, with honours in Surgery and in Clinical Pharmacology. His MD thesis work was in London and Oxford where he acquired expertise also in Myasthenia, and a Diploma in Immunology. He then trained at the National Hospital for Neurology, and the Radcliffe Infirmary, before in 1993 becoming Consultant at the Royal London Hospital and in Colchester where he established the Neurocare Rehab team, and a botulinum toxin clinic. He left his Colchester NHS post in 2001 but has continued a headache clinic at the Royal London Hospital, until in 2011 moving to the City of London Migraine Clinic, to become Medical Director. He continues research into MS and headache at the Royal London Hospital.
From 2007 he has undertaken a weekly clinic at Southend General Hospital, including fortnightly botulinum toxin clinic.
He has worked with Allergan as a clinical triallist, and in training for the use of Botox in chronic migraine, in 2011 lecturing in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Korea.