Dr David Stewart

Dr David Stewart is a Consultant Physician in Medicine for the Elderly at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow. He has a longstanding interest in Parkinson’s disease and established a multidisciplinary PD clinic in 1993. In 2000, the clinic achieved Chartermark status which it has maintained ever since. His interests include audit and database development. He has developed a Parkinson’s disease database, which is now in use in a number of centres throughout the country. He is a founder member of the Glasgow Movement Disorders Group and an advisor to Greater Glasgow Health Board on PD services. He is a past chairman of the BGS Movement Disorders Section.  He is a member of the Guideline Development Group for the SIGN Guideline on Parkinson’s Disease, due to be published in late 2009. In addition to his interest in movement disorders he has a strong input to medical management as Associate Medical Director for emergency care and medical services in Greater Glasgow & Clyde.