George Tofaris

George Tofaris graduated from the combined MB/PhD programme of Cambridge University in 2003. He completed his general medical training at the National Hospital for Neurology, Hammersmith, Royal Brompton and Royal Free hospitals in London in 2006. He worked for a year at the Neurology Department of the Austin hospital, an affiliate of Melbourne University and was appointed Clinical Lecturer at Oxford in 2007. He was awarded a Lefler fellowship from Harvard Medical School in 2008-09 for advanced studies in neurodegenerative diseases. In 2011, he completed his training in Clinical Neurology at Oxford and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship and the Wellcome-Beit Prize. He coordinates the EU IMI Consortium IMPRiND (www.imprind.org) which aims to delineate new mechanisms that are relevant to the progression of pathology in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. As a clinically active Consultant Neurologist at the John Radcliffe hospital, he covers acute as well as general outpatient neurology and leads regional specialist clinics in Movement and Neurogenetic Disorders.