Dr Chris Carswell

Senior Clinical Lecturer
Imperial College London,Consultant Neurologist Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation NHS Trust

Dr Chris Carswell is a Consultant Neurologist and Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, supported by an MRC Clinical Academic Fellowship. He has a specialist interest in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH), having established a dedicated multi-disciplinary NPH clinic at Charing Cross Hospital. He chairs the Association of British Neurologists Special Interest Group in NPH and led a Cochrane Review evaluating the evidence for shunt surgery.

His current research focuses on identifying which patients benefit from shunting, and understanding reasons for outcome variability using novel digital assessment tools alongside multi-modal neurodegenerative biomarker assessments. He trained in London and Sydney (Australasian Fellow) and is Honorary Secretary and founding trustee of the South of England Neurosciences Association.