Dr Michael Absoud

Specialises in autism spectrum disorder, children’s neurodevelopmental disorders and developmental epilepsy.

Biography

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

Conditions

• Children’s complex neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Autism spectrum disorder.
• Attention-deficit/hyperactivity 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.
• Childhood neuroinflammatory disorders.

Procedures/ treatments

• Medical management of conditions such as ADHD, Autism and complex neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Diagnostics for complex neurodevelopmental disorders.

Special/ research interests

Dr Michael Absoud has a major interest in childhood complex neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbidities in neurogenetic and acquired neurological diseases. His 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.

Practice locations

Evelina London Children’s Hospital.