Michael G. Hanna

Michael Hanna
Born Michael G. Hanna
1963 (age 52–53)
Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Institutions University College London[1]
Alma mater University of Manchester
Thesis Studies on the molecular genetics and molecular pathogenesis of the mitochondrial encephalomyopathies (1996)
Website
orcid.org/0000-0003-0825-4075

Michael G Hanna (born 1963 in Leeds, England) is Director of the UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London and Professor in Clinical Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, and also Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Neuromuscular Disease.[2][3][4][5][6]

Education

Hanna undertook undergraduate training in Medical Biochemistry and then Medicine at the University of Manchester graduating with honours in 1988.

Career and research

He undertook postgraduate medical and neurological training at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, London. He undertook neurological research training as an MRC Clinical Training Fellow [7] at the UCL Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London.

Hanna was appointed Consultant Neurologist (Neurology) to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, University College Hospital, NHS FT in 1998 and promoted to University College London Professor of Clinical Neurology in 2006. He was Clinical Director of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery from 2007-2012; the largest neurological disease hospital in the UK assessing over 130,000 patients per year.[8] He commenced as Director of the UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London in 2012. The UCL Institute of Neurology is the largest neurological research institute in the UK with over 600 research staff and an annual turnover of £60m.[9][10]

Awards and achievements

Hanna established the MRC Centre for Translational Research in Neuromuscular Disease.[11]

He was voted best clinical teacher by clinical medical students year 2000.[12]

He has delivered a number of keynote lectures and memorial lectures worldwide including the UK, (Goulstonian Lectureship to the Royal College of Physicians in 2003 Goulstonian Lectures), and the prestigious Ian MacDonald Lecture.[13][14]

He was elected a Guarantor of Brain in 2009,[15] and a corresponding member of the American Neurology Association in 2010.[16][17]

References

  1. ↑ Michael Hanna's Entry at ORCID
  2. ↑ "Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases". Cnmd.ac.uk. 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  3. ↑ "Mike Hanna". Cnmd.ac.uk. 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  4. ↑ Michael G. Hanna's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ Andreu, Antoni L.; Hanna, Michael G.; Reichmann, Heinz; Bruno, Claudio; Penn, Audrey S.; Tanji, Kurenai; Pallotti, Francesco; Iwata, So; Bonilla, Eduardo; Lach, Boleslaw; Morgan-Hughes, John; Shanske, Sara; Sue, Carolyn M.; Pulkes, Teeratorn; Siddiqui, Asra; Clark, John B.; Land, John; Iwata, Momi; Schaefer, Jochen; DiMauro, Salvatore (1999). "Exercise Intolerance Due to Mutations in the CytochromebGene of Mitochondrial DNA". New England Journal of Medicine. 341 (14): 1037–1044. doi:10.1056/NEJM199909303411404.
  6. ↑ Jouvenceau, Anne; Eunson, Louise H; Spauschus, Alexander; Ramesh, Venkataswaran; Zuberi, Sameer M; Kullmann, Dimitri M; Hanna, Michael G (2001). "Human epilepsy associated with dysfunction of the brain P/Q-type calcium channel". The Lancet. 358 (9284): 801–807. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)05971-2.
  7. ↑ "Fellowships - Skills & careers - Medical Research Council". Mrc.ac.uk. 2015-06-09. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  8. ↑ "Britain's best hospitals: A patients' guide - Features - Health & Families". The Independent. 2008-03-20. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  9. ↑ "UCL Institute of Neurology". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  10. ↑ Horvath, R. (2006). "Phenotypic spectrum associated with mutations of the mitochondrial polymerase gene". Brain. 129 (7): 1674–1684. doi:10.1093/brain/awl088.
  11. ↑ "Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases". Cnmd.ac.uk. 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  12. ↑ "Top Teacher and Administrator Awards 2010-11". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  13. ↑ "Professor Hanna invited to give prestigious ANZAN Lecture". Ucl.ac.uk. 2011-04-08. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  14. ↑ "ANZAN". Archived from the original on 2015-02-27. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Guarantors of Brain". Guarantors of Brain. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  16. ↑ "American Neurological Association (ANA)". Myana.org. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  17. ↑ Zuberi, S. M. (1999). "A novel mutation in the human voltage-gated potassium channel gene (Kv1.1) associates with episodic ataxia type 1 and sometimes with partial epilepsy". Brain. 122 (5): 817–825. doi:10.1093/brain/122.5.817.
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