Professor Alex Sinclair

Professor Sinclair is Professor of Neurology within the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (IMSR) at the University of Birmingham, and Head of the Metabolic Neurology Research Group. She is an international figure in translational research in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH), headache and traumatic brain injury. 

 

 

Professor Sinclair is a member of the board for the European Headache Federation and is on the scientific committee for the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS). She is also a council member for the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH). Professor Sinclair is on the MRC Neuroscience and Mental Health Board and the Midland Neuroscience Teaching and Research Fund Board, as well as being Chair of the Brain Research UK Scientific Advisory Board.

Previously, she was a board member of the International Headache Society (IHS) and was the Deputy Chair for the Association for British Neurologists grouping for Headache and Pain (ABN AAG). She was on the research committee for the Association for British Neurologists and was also the previous patron of the patient charity IIH UK.

In partnership with the Defence Medical Services and the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Professor Sinclair and a team of experts at the University of Birmingham are leading a major new study aimed at identifying new ways to accurately predict whether patients will develop long-term complications as a consequence of mild Traumatic Brain injury.