MS Ireland is delighted to formally announce that Professor Michael Hutchinson has been appointed as the Society’s Medical Advisor. Professor Hutchinson is a Consultant Neurologist at St Vincent’s University Hospital and Newman Clinical Research Professor at University College Dublin.
Professor Hutchinson will work with MS Ireland around research funding and advocacy, research translation and will help to improve medical information offered by MS Ireland.
Professor Hutchinson says of his appointment,
“I’m delighted to become MS Ireland’s Medical Advisor. I have long been a supporter of MS Ireland’s work and I am pleased to help in any way I can. I have had a long career as a Consultant Neurologist and my clinical interest has always been MS. Over the years I have seen great changes in the care and treatments available for people with MS. I hope with my new role I can report on many more new advancements and developments. “
Professor Hutchinson is on the editorial board, and organises the controversies series, of the “Multiple Sclerosis Journal.” He instigated and organised with Christian Confavreux, Lyon, the pivotal Pregnancy in Multiple Sclerosis (PRIMS) study in Europe. He was chairperson of the organising committee of ECTRIMS held in Dublin in 2001. He was on the medical advisory boards of the AFFIRM study of natalizumab and the BG-12 study (CONFIRM) in relapsing multiple sclerosis.
He was a member of the international panels convened by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (USA) on the differential diagnosis of MS (2006) and the McDonald Criteria for the diagnosis of MS (2010). He is a referee for a number of neurology journals and has over 200 research peer-reviewed publications on a variety of subjects including multiple sclerosis, dystonia and hereditary spastic paraplegia.
Image: Prof. Michael Hutchinson