Dr Farooq Maniyar

Professional statement

Dr Farooq Maniyar is an internationally acclaimed consultant neurologist who has extensive experience in dealing with all types of neurological problems. He specialises in treating headaches, migraines, cluster headaches and neck pain and offering pain treatment such as Botox and nerve blocks.

Dr Maniyar graduated from the Dr DY Patil Medical College, India in 1999 and then went on to obtain his degree in medicine from the Shivaji University, India in 2002. After moving to the UK and receiving his MRCP from the Royal College of Physicians, he was then granted a clinical research fellowship from the University of California San Francisco in 2012.

In addition to practising privately as a consultant neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr Maniyar is a reviewer for several international journals and is actively involved in teaching, especially GPs on topics regularly witnessed in general practice such as headaches and epilepsy. He won the Harold G. Wolff Lecture Award consecutively in 2013 and 2014, which is one of the most prestigious awards in headache research granted annually by the American Headache Society.

Dr Maniyar regularly publishes in renowned international journals, enjoys lecturing both in the UK and abroad and has been interviewed by the BBC radio and appeared on various TV programmes.