Dr Tabish Saifee

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Consultant Neurologist, BMI The Clementine Churchill Hospital
• Consultant Neurologist, Chiswick Medical Centre
• Consultant Neurologist, Queen Square Private Consulting 
• Consultant Neurologist, The Platinum Medical Centre
• Consultant Neurologist, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Consultant Neurologist, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
• Specialist Registrar in Neurology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (2013 - 2015)
• Specialist Registrar and Clinical Research Fellow, UCL Institute of Neurology (2010 - 2013)

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 Sub-specialties

• Tremor
• Dystonia
• Parkinson's disease
• Movement disorder
• Headache
• Dizziness
• Blackouts
• Memory problems
• Sensory symptoms
• Weakness 
• Visual symptoms

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 Education

• PhD in Neuroscience, UCL (2015)
• PhD in Neuroscience, UCL
• MBBS, UCL (2003)
• BSc in Neuroscience, UCL (2000)
• PhD in Neuroscience, UCL

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 Publications and conferences

• Saifee TA, Teodoro T, Erro R, Edwards MJ, Cordivari C. A Pilot Study of Botulinum Toxin for Jerky, Position-Specific, Upper Limb Action Tremor. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). 2016 Sep 29;6:406.
• Schwingenschuh P, Saifee TA, Katschnig-Winter P, Macerollo A, Koegl-Wallner M, Culea V, Ghadery C, Hofer E, Pendl T, Seiler S, Werner U, Franthal S, Maurits NM, Tijssen MA, Schmidt R, Rothwell JC, Bhatia KP, Edwards MJ. Validation of "laboratory-supported" criteria for functional (psychogenic) tremor. Mov Disord. 2016 Apr;31(4):555-62. doi: 10.1002/mds.26525.
• Saifee TA, Edwards MJ, Kassavetis P, Gilbertson T. Estimation of the phase response curve from Parkinsonian tremor. J Neurophysiol. 2016 Jan 1;115(1):310-23. doi: 10.1152/jn.00216.2015.
• Saifee TA, Pareés I, Kassavetis P, Kaski D, Bronstein AM, Rothwell JC, Sadnicka A, Lunn MP, Manji H, Teo JT, Bhatia KP, Reilly MM, Edwards MJ. Tremor in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease: No evidence of cerebellar dysfunction. Clin Neurophysiol. 2015 Sep;126(9):1817-24. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.12.023.
• Brittain JS, Cagnan H, Mehta AR, Saifee TA, Edwards MJ, Brown P. Distinguishing the central drive to tremor in Parkinson's disease and essential tremor. J Neurosci. 2015 Jan 14;35(2):795-806. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3768-14.2015.
• Saifee TA, Kaski D, Buckwell D, Bronstein AM. Tremor of the eyes in Parkinson's disease: merely a measure of the head movement. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2014 Dec;20(12):1447-8. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2014.07.009.
• Sadnicka A, Teo JT, Kojovic M, Pareés I, Saifee TA, Kassavetis P, Schwingenschuh P, Katschnig-Winter P, Stamelou M, Mencacci NE, Rothwell JC, Edwards MJ, Bhatia KP. All in the blink of an eye: new insight into cerebellar and brainstem function in DYT1 and DYT6 dystonia. Eur J Neurol. 2015 May;22(5):762-7. doi: 10.1111/ene.12521.
• Erro R, Stamelou M, Saifee TA, Ganos C, Antelmi E, Balint B, Cordivari C, Bhatia KP. Facial tremor in dystonia. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2014 Aug;20(8):924-5. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2014.04.029.
• Sadnicka A, Patani B, Saifee TA, Kassavetis P, Pareés I, Korlipara P, Bhatia KP, Rothwell JC, Galea JM, Edwards MJ. Normal motor adaptation in cervical dystonia: a fundamental cerebellar computation is intact. Cerebellum. 2014 Oct;13(5):558-67. doi: 10.1007/s12311-014-0569-0.
• Saifee TA. Tremor. Br Med Bull. 2019 Jun 19;130(1):51-63. doi: 10.1093/bmb/ldz017.

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 Prizes and awards

• Multiple awards by UCL for best teacher for undergraduate and postgraduate neurology education
• Royal Society research award
• NIHR doctoral research fellowship

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 Professional membership

• Member of the Association of British Neurologists
• Member of the Movement Disorder Society
• Member of the Royal College of Physicians
• Member of the American Academy of Neurology
• Member of the Specialist Interest Advisory group to the Association of British Neurologists

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