Dr Benjamin Wakerley PhD FRCP

• FRCP, Royal College of Physicians, London, 2019
• MRCP (Neurology), Royal College of Physicians, London, 2012
• PhD in Molecular Immunology, Imperial College, London, 2009
• MRCP, Royal College of Physicians, London, 2003
• MBBS, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, 2001
• BSc in Neuroscience (1st class), University College London, London, 1997

Dr Wakerley completed a BSc in Neuroscience at University College London in 1997 before graduating from Imperial College School of Medicine in 2001. He attained MRCP in 2003 and in 2009 completed his PhD in molecular immunology which was funded by an MRC clinical training fellowship.

Dr Wakerley completed his neurology registrar training in Oxford and Singapore before being appointed a consultant in 2014.

In 2021 he joined the neurology team in Birmingham and became an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham within Metabolic and Systems Research. He now leads the tertiary referral complex headache service at University Hospitals Birmingham.

Dr Wakerley is currently co-supervising a PhD student looking at migraine in pregnancy.

Dr Wakerley’s current research interests include: migraine in pregnancy and medication-overuse headache.

Membership of professional bodies

• GMC 6028684
• Royal College of Physicians
• Association of British Neurologists
• British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH) – Education Officer (2022 – present)

Clubs and societies

• Chairman of the Oxford Headache Symposium

Public Engagement

• Dr Wakerley has given several talks for the Migraine Trust –

• Founder of Neuroscience, Education and Research on Medication-Overuse Headache (NEMO) – a group for patients with medication-overuse headache

Patents and commercialisation

• Founder Ceftronics Limited and the CEFREF mobile headache app
• Patent (P003712GB00 - ‘Electronic Recordal Device’ – granted 2022
• Dr Wakerley regularly teaches on headache to acute physicians, neurology trainees, consultants and general practitioners. He has also given lectures nationally and internationally on headache