Dr Andrea Eugenio Cavanna MBChB, MD, PhD

• PhD University College London 2010
• MD University of Turin (Italy) 2002

Andrea E. Cavanna is Consultant in Behavioural Neurology at the Department of Neuropsychiatry, National Centre for Mental Health, Birmingham (United Kingdom), Honorary Reader in Neuropsychiatry at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Neurology, University College London (United Kingdom), and Visiting Professor in Neuropsychiatry at University of Pavia (Italy).

He received his MBChB and MD from the University of Turin (Italy), completed his specialty training in Neurology at Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara (Italy) and was awarded his PhD in Clinical Neurology from University College London. Since 2008 he is Lead Consultant for the specialist Tourette syndrome clinic at the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is currently Deputy Director for the MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry at University of Birmingham. He has published over 200 international peer-reviewed articles in the fields of behavioural neurology and neuropsychiatry, with special focus on the behavioural aspects of epilepsy and Tourette syndrome.

His other research interest is the study of the neural correlates of consciousness in neuropsychiatric/neurodegenerative conditions. In 2010 he received the American Neuropsychiatric Association Career Development Award.

• Deputy Director for the MSc/PGDip/PGCert in Clinical Neuropsychiatry
• Lead for Special Study Module (Student Project 2) Motion and emotion
• Lecturer on Special Study Module (Student Project 2) Epilepsy
• Lecturer on Special Study Module (Student Project 2) Pacemakers in the brain
• Supervisor for BMedSc in Psychological Medicine
• Supervisor for MBChB Elective projects
• Bedside and outpatient clinical teaching of neuropsychiatry to MBChB students
• Lecturer on the MRCPsych and other postgraduate courses in Birmingham
• Visiting Professor at University of Pavia, Italy

• MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry, University of Birmingham, UK
• Academic Clinical Fellowship in Neurology, University of Birmingham, UK
• MSc in Clinical Neurology, University College London, UK

Translational research programme in behavioural neurology and clinical neuropsychiatry, with focus on movement disorders (especially Tourette syndrome) and epilepsy (pharmacology, psychiatric aspects and alterations of consciousness). Organiser of the European Federation of Neuropsychiatry Congress (Florence, 2007). Co-founder of the Michael Trimble Neuropsychiatry Research Group (MTNRG, 2009).

• Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
• Affiliate member of the Royal College of Physicians
• Member of the Association of British Neurologists (ABN) - Cognition Specialist Section
• Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists – Section of Neuropsychiatry Executive Committee (ABN representative)
• Member of the British Neuropsychiatric Association (BNPA)
• Member of the British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP)
• Member of the UK Tourette Action Research Network (TARN)
• Member of the International League Against Epilepsy – UK Chapter (ILAE-UK)
• Member of the American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) Committee on Research
• Member of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS)
• Member of the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome (ESSTS)
• Member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Tourette Syndrome Association – USA (TSA-USA)
• Member of the Italian Neurological Association (Società Italiana di Neurologia, SIN)
• Member of the Editorial Board of 17 scientific journals, including Epilepsy & Behavior, Behavioural Neurology, Neuropsychiatry
• Ad hoc Reviewer for 6 grant funding bodies and 84 scientific journals, including Brain, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Epilepsia, Seizure, Movement Disorders, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry