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Prof Heather Angus-Leppan
MBBS HONS, MSC, MD, FRACP, FRCP
Consultant Neurologist
Heather Angus-Leppan MBBS (Hons), MSc (Epilepsy), MD, FRACP, FRCP is Consultant Neurologist, and Epilepsy Lead at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital, University College London. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College and Imperial College London.
She has a keen and active interest in general neurology, headache and migraine, epilepsy and chronic pain. Her practice has been enhanced by a wide experience in the northern and southern hemispheres, having worked in Australia, Chile, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
After completing an MD in Sydney, Australia, she came as Visiting Australasian Clinical Fellow to the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford in 1993, and subsequently worked as Senior Registrar in Cardiff, and as a Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Essex Neuroscience Centre.
She is past Honorary Secretary of the Clinical Neurosciences Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and of the Association of British Neurologists. She is current President of the Clinical Neurosciences Section, Royal Society of Medicine. She has published articles on basic and clinical aspects of epilepsy and migraine.
Hospital Locations
Royal Free Hospital
Year qualified
1984
Country of qualification
Australia
Languages spoken
English, German, Spanish, Australian
Specialities
- Neurology
Memberships
- Fellow, Royal College of Physicians
- Fellow
- Royal Society of Medicine
- Member
- Association of British Neurologists
Registration and licensing
GMC:3648540
Procedures offered
- Lumbar puncture
Clinical interests
- General Neurology
- Headache and migraine
- Epilepsy and blackouts
- Chronic pain
Special interests
- Epilepsy
- Headache
- Clinical research
Research interests
- Headache and migraine
- Epilepsy
- Syncope (fainting)