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Dr Micheál (Mike) Taylor is a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist based in Leeds with an NHS practice in Leeds Children’s Hospital, which is one of the largest children’s hospitals in Europe. As a tertiary paediatric neurologist, his NHS practice encompasses a population of 5 million people throughout North, East and West Yorkshire and North-East Lincolnshire and Goole.
Dr Taylor is an expert in paediatric headache disorders with a specialised NHS headache clinic. He has a particular interest in migraine. He will soon be undertaking greater occipital nerve injections through his NHS and private practice. Dr Taylor is also undertaking clinical trials in newer therapies for the pharmacological management of migraine.
Dr Taylor is also an expert in epilepsy, with a particular interest in complex developmental epileptic encephalopathies. He runs the only Dravet Syndrome specific clinic in the UK. Dr Taylor is part of the project management committee of the SCN1A Horizons study.
Dr Taylor runs a specialised clinic managing neuroinflammatory disorders including multiple sclerosis (MS), MOGAD, neuromyelitis optica, autoimmune encephalitis, and opsoclonus-myoclonus.
As a paediatric neurologist, Dr Taylor’s expertise extends to abnormalities of gait including toe-walking, disorders of muscle and nerve, cerebral palsy, developmental delay, and faints, fits and funny turns.
Dr Taylor also undertakes medicolegal consultations.
Dr Taylor consults privately at Kingsbridge Private Hospital, Belfast and Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital.
Dr Taylor completed his primary medical qualification (MBBCh BAO) with an intercalated BSc in Anatomy through Queen’s University of Belfast.
During his core paediatric neurology training in Northern Ireland, he undertook placements within paediatric neurology, paediatric neurodisability, community paediatrics, paediatric intensive care, neonatal intensive care, and general paediatrics.
Dr Taylor completed higher specialist paediatric neurology GRID training at Leeds Children’s Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Dr Taylor is a member of both the British Paediatric Neurology Association and the European Paediatric Neurology Society.
Dr Taylor is deeply committed to medical education and clinical research. He holds the position of Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds and his academic work has been published in various reputable journals. These include the European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, and Frontiers in Neurology.
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Leeds Children’s Hospital
Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds
Dr Taylor is originally from Castlewellan, Co Down. He lives with his wife Lauren and son Henry in Yorkshire. He is an avid cyclist and home cook.
Sabanathan S, Abdel-Mannan O, Mankad K, Siddiqui A, Das K, Carr L, Eltze C, Eyre M, Gadian J, Hemingway C, Kaliakatsos M, Kneen R, Krishnakumar D, Lynch B, Parida A, Rossor T, Taylor M, Wassmer E, Wright S, Lim M, Hacohen Y.
Ray STJ, Abdel-Mannan O, Sa M, Fuller C, Wood GK, Pysden K, Yoong M, McCullagh H, Scott D, McMahon M, Thomas N, Taylor M, Illingworth M, McCrea N, Davies V, Whitehouse W, Zuberi S, Guthrie K, Wassmer E, Shah N, Baker MR, Tiwary S, Tan HJ, Varma U, Ram D, Avula S, Enright N, Hassell J, Ross Russell AL, Kumar R, Mulholland RE, Pett S, Galea I, Thomas RH, Lim M, Hacohen Y, Solomon T, Griffiths MJ, Michael BD, Kneen R; CoroNerve study group.
Wassmer E, Billaud C, Absoud M, Abdel-Mannan O, Benetou C, Cummins C, Forrest K, De Goede C, Eltantawi N, Hickson H, Hussain N, Jardine P, Livingston JH, Mordekar S, Ramdas S, Taylor M, Vijayakumar K, West S, Whitehouse WP, Kneen R, Hemingway C, Lim M, Hacohen Y, Wright S; PUDDLS STUDY GROUP.
Badshah N, Mattison KA, Ahmad S, Chopra P, Johnston HR, Ahmad S, Khan SH, Sarwar MT, Cutler DJ, Taylor M, Vadlamani G, Zwick ME, Escayg A. Novel Missense
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