Dr Catherine Mummery
Consultant Neurologist
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Cath Mummery has been a consultant neurologist since 2002 and leads the cognitive disorders service at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She studied medicine at UCH, trained in neurology at NHNN and Kings College Hospital, and gained a PhD in cognitive neurology at the Wellcome Department of Functional Imaging, UCL.
She is head of novel therapeutics at the Dementia Research Centre, UCL and has been senior investigator on over 20 early phase drug trials of disease modifying agents in dementias including genetic forms of Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. She is deputy director for the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre at NHNN, a unit dedicated to early phase trials in neurodegeneration.
She was elected to the executive of the Association of British neurologists as services chair in 2017 and also works closely with the Royal College of Physicians, sitting on the medical specialties board and chairing the joint clinical neurosciences committee. As deputy director of the NHSE Neurosciences Clinical Reference Group, she is closely involved in work to enhance neurology care for patients.