Professor Michael Lunn

Professor Michael Lunn is a Consultant Neurologist and the Clinical Lead in Neuroimmunology at the National Hospital for Neurology in London. He trained in Cambridge, London and Baltimore, USA. The topic of his PhD thesis was Mechanisms of Antibody Pathogenesis in Inflammatory Neuropathies. He has been a Consultant Neurologist since 2005 and works solely at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He is the Clinical Lead for Neuroimmunology and oversees the Neuroimmunology and CSF Laboratory and its clinical function and governance. He was awarded a Chair by University College London in 2019 in recognition of his clinical research and contribution to his specialist field. He is President Elect of the British Peripheral Nerve Society (President 2021-23), Chair of the Association of British Neurologists Neuromuscular Academic Advisory Board and previously Treasurer and Board Member for the Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium and the Peripheral Nerve Society. His clinical practice concentrates on inflammatory peripheral nerve diseases and his research interests include the pathogenesis and treatment of CIDP, MMNCB, vasculitis and GBS as well as the measurement of outcomes in trials and day to day practice. He has developed an increasing interest in neuropathies associated with haematological disorders and runs the UK’s first Neuro-Haematology clinic concentrating on paraproteinaemic neurology. He also looks after on of the largest world series of POEMS patients. During the COVID-19 pandemic he has extended his interests to COVID-19 immunological disease responses and monitoring of disease and vaccination related neurological complications. He is joint Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Neuromuscular Disease Group. He is author of more than 200 publications and systematic reviews in his areas of interest. If he had not become a doctor, he would have pursued a life in opera and performance; he is now an enthusiastic amateur. He enjoys his family, fast (vintage) cars, his garden, making cakes and almost any pursuit offered by the countryside or coastline.

Professor Lunn is fully trained in all aspects of Neurology and will happily review and investigate almost any neurological problem to diagnosis and treatment. It is sometimes approrpriate to refer patients on to more specialised services for complex diagnostics, advanced therapy, surgery or access to restricted medications. Professor Lunn specialist interest is in peripheral erve disease and in particular inflamamtory and immunological disease of the peripheral nerves and neurology linked to haematology. This includes differential diagnosis of disease mimics. However his expertise is broad and covers much of neurology in this context.  Most work can be done as an out-patient but small numbers of patients require daycase or short in-patient stays for investigation or management. Occasionally a referral to an alternative provider strategies is necessary. Professor Lunn is unable to offer an emergency or on-call service because of other commitments but will do his best to see patients in a timely fashion as far as is possible.