Alan Whone

Alan Whone is consultant neurologist to Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. Prior to training in neurology in the South West Alan undertook a PhD in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders at the Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital , London with Professor D J Brooks.  Alan runs a regional movement disorders clinic at Frenchay where a significant part of his clinical role is to support the functional neurosurgery for movement disorders programme. His current research projects include: clinical investigations of novel target sights for DBS in PD; GDNF infusions in PD (both of which he is investigating with Professor Steve Gill); clinical investigations into cognitive and axial symptoms in PD and lab based investigations with Professor Neil Scolding into novel neuroprotective approaches including assessing the potential utility of bone marrow stromal cells as a cell based therapy in Parkinson’s disease.