John S. Duncan


John S. Duncan is a British neurologist specialising in epilepsy. He is Professor of Clinical Neurology at University College London Institute of Neurology and Clinical Director of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square, London.

Education

John Duncan qualified from University of Oxford medical school, where he also obtained his medical doctorate.

Career and research

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1994, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2005. He received the LifeTime Achievement Award for Research of the American Epilepsy Society in 2004.
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John Duncan has published extensively on various aspects of neurology and epilepsy but particularly on the structural and functional imaging of the brain. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, and is a member of the editorial board of several specialist journals.