Dr Robert Weeks

Dr Robert Weeks

Consultant Neurologist

Dr. Robert Weeks (MB ChB PhD FRCP) is a Consultant Neurologist working in London and the South East. His NHS work is based in the Neuroscience department of King's College Hospital where he is lead clinician for the neurology department. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and has a PhD in Clinical Neurosciences. With a broad experience in neurology and a special interest in emergency neurology, cerebrovascular disease, movement disorders and botulinum injection for dystonia, Dr Weeks sees private patients in the Guthrie Clinic at King's College Hospital, in his Harley Street clinic, and in a number of private hospitals in London, Croydon and Kent.

Dr Weeks qualified from the Medical School of Cardiff in 1989. Since then he has done general medical training in a number of hospitals in Central London. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1992 and a fellow of the Royal College in 2005. His medical training was followed by neurology posts in many of the major neuroscience centres in London including the Hammersmith Hospital, the National Hospital for Neurology, the Royal Free Hospital and King's College Hospital. He was appointed to the GMC specialist register for neurology in 1999 and he has conducted neurological research training at the Hammersmith Hospital and in the prestigious National Institutes of Health in the United States. He was awarded a PhD in Clinical Neurosciences by Imperial College and has been published extensively in a number of important areas in neurology and clinical neurosciences.

He is one of the very few neurologists in London whose NHS work is based full time at the neuroscience centre and he has also been the lead clinician for the neurology department for the last six years. In September 2006 he organised the Association of British Neurologists meeting on behalf of King's.