Dr Naheed Khan

MA MB BChir PhD FRCP

Neurology

25 years of experience

14 years as a specialist

Languages spoken

English

Registered with

General Medical Council: 4121954

Practices worked at

London Bridge Hospital

27 Tooley Street, London, United Kingdom, SE1 2PR

680 reviews

About

Dr Naheed Khan is a Consultant Neurologist with a broad range of neurological expertise offering an opinion for headache and migraine, epilepsy, faints, dementia and numbness and tingling. She is often asked to undertake a review of complex neurology for a second opinion.

Her specialist expertise for which she leads a dedicated service is Parkinson's disease and other movements disorders (tremor, ataxia, dystonia and chorea). She also heads a botulinum toxin service for dystonia, hemi-facial spasm and salivary pooling.

Dr Khan qualified from Cambridge University, completed her Neurology specialist training at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH and Kings College Hospital, London. She was awarded a PhD for her research in Parkinson's disease from the Institute of Neurology, UCL, University of London.

Dr Khan is a Consultant Neurologist at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospital NHS Trust and previously, Consultant at King's College Hospital, London. Currently, she is chair of the South East Parkinson's disease and Movement disorders Forum and member of the board of the journal Medicine (Elsevier).

Throughout her career, she has lectured at a regional and at an international level.

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Medical procedures

Leads a Movement disorders Botulinum toxin clinic treating:

head and neck dystonia (repeated head movements, head rotation in any direction)
hemi-facial spasm (repetitive winking of one eye)
blepharospasm (repetitive blinking of both eyes)
eyelid opening apraxia (slow eyelid opening)
facial tics (sudden movements of different muscle groups of the face)
salivary pooling and drooling (complicating Parkinson's disease, Motor Neuron Disease, epilepsy and any other conditions that may slow or reduce clearing of saliva)

Special interests

Broad range expertise for the following:

Migraine and other causes of recurrent headache
The first fit / seizure and Epilepsy
Loss of consciousness including near blackouts and fainting spells
Vertigo, lightheadedness and other causes of dizzy spells
Intermittent or peristent numbness and tingling of different parts of the body
Weakness with loss of power of different parts of the body
Increasing loss of memory and Dementia disorders inlcuding Alzheimer's disease

Movement disorders expertise in the following:

Parkinson's disease - a new diagnosis, complex and complicated Parkinson's disease, young people with Parkinson's disease
Other uncommon forms of Parkinsonism - diagnosing and treating MSA, PSP, CBS
Ataxia - diagnosing and treating hereditary and acquired forms
Tremor - excluding Parkinson's disease, diagnosing and treating other tremor disorders
Dystonia - diagnosis and treatment including the effective use of botulinum toxin injections for neck dystonia
Tic disorders - Tourettes and other tic disorders
Chorea - diagnosing and managing Huntington's disease

Medicine - University of Cambridge - MA MB BChir
Post Doctorate Thesis - Institute of Neurology, University of London, UCL - PhD
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians - FRCP
Member of the American Academy of Neurology
Member of the Society of Authors