Consultant Neurologist Ed Newman from Glasgow on Deep Brain Stimulation surgery

Ed Newman is a Consultant Neurologist based at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He has a specialist interest in movement disorders and Parkinson’s Disease. He is part of the National Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) service in Scotland and runs a Parkinson’s Disease telemedicine service to the Western Isles. He is also interested in medical education and runs the clinical neurosciences teaching programme for University of Glasgow’s Medical School.

If you want to know more about DBS, Parkinson’s UK have a number of great resources, please click here for more. 

Jo who has Parkinson’s invited Parkinsons UK to film her journey following having DBS, if you would like to view this, click here