Dr Graeme Macphee

Dr Graeme JA Macphee is Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine for the Elderly at Southern General Hospital Glasgow. He runs a joint tertiary referral Movement Disorders Clinic in the Institute of Neurological Sciences with Dr Donald Grosset, Consultant Neurologist as well as local PD services. He is a past Chairman of the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) Movement Disorders Section and faculty member of the PD Academy. During his tenure he led on the formation of BRIT MODIS – a collaborative organisation of neurologists, geriatricians and nurse specialists affiliated to the Movement Disorder Society.  Among other publications, Dr Macphee contributed the chapter on Diagnosis and differential diagnosis in Parkinson’s disease in ‘ Parkinson’s disease in the Older Patient’ ed Hindle and Playfer.   Current interests include the use of FP CIT SPECT scanning in early diagnosis of clinically uncertain parkinsonism, impulse control disorders in PD and evaluation and management of non motor features of Parkinson’s disease. He was a Faculty member of the international PD Non Motor group which was responsible for the development of NMS QUEST. He was Secretary to the SIGN guideline group on Diagnosis and Pharmacological management of Parkinson’s Disease which published in early 2010. Dr Macphee is a past Chairman of the Geriatric Advisory Committee at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.