Dr Michael Absoud

Dr Michael Absoud was appointed as consultant in children’s neurodisability at Evelina London Children’s Hospital in 2012.

He has a major interest in childhood complex neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbidities in neurogenetic and acquired neurological diseases.

Michael’s research interests include:

• clinical trial design and outcome measurement in neurodisability, via collaboration with King’s Clinical Trials Unit and Kings BRC bioinformatics unit
• epidemiological studies and active surveillance of rare diseases
• childhood neuroinflammatory disorders.

Special interests

• Children’s complex neurodevelopmental disorders
• Autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and co-morbidities (medical and neuropsychiatric)
• Developmental epilepsy
• Neurodevelopment in neurogenetic and rare diseases
• Psychopharmacology
• Behaviour that challenges in children with neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders
• Childhood disintegrative disorder

Education

• 1995-2000: MB.BCH, BAO (Hons) – Dublin, Ireland
• 2000-2009: training in paediatrics – London (King’s College Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital) and Oxford Children’s Hospital
• 2009-2012: PhD clinical research fellowship training (health and population sciences) – Institute of Child Health, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, University of Birmingham.