Paul Worth

Dr Paul Worth is a consultant in neurology and lead clinician in Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.  He trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford universities. He trained in neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and at St Mary’s and Atkinson Morley’s hospitals in London.  He has undertaken his main research as a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellow at the Institute of Neurology, London, in the genetics of movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease and the inherited cerebellar ataxias for which he was awarded a PhD. He has developed the local clinical service for patients with a multidisciplinary Parkinson’s disease service.  His team was shortlisted for the Hospital Doctor Parkinson’s Team of the Year award in 2006.  He is interested in ways of improving the delivery of health 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 Parkinson’s disease and in the use of screening tests for pre-clinical PD. He is research director for Parkinson’s Disease in the Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disease Research Network (DeNDRoN) East Anglia, and is a member of the DeNDRoN Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Studies Group.