Current NHS consultant posts held
Consultant Neurologist and Stroke Specialist
St George's Hospital
Blackshaw Road
Tooting
SW17 0QT
Research interests
I am the Clinical Research Lead for Stroke at St George's Hospital. I am part of 17 stroke related research studies.
Personal interests
I am a sporty person. Until a year ago I was a keen runner and cyclist but after completing the London Marathon and the Descent Duathlon, I changed to circuits and now I have added Taekwondo and pilates to my belt.
Awards received
June 2008 Royal Society of Medicine Black and Ethnic Minority Essay Prize
Title: Does ethnicity in health matter?
(Additional) Languages spoken
- Gujarati
- Fluent
- Hindi
- Fluent
- Urdu
- Conversational
Publications
Journals:
2016 Benjamin P, Zeestraten E, Lambert C, Ster IC, Williams OA, Lawrence AJ, Patel B, MacKinnon AD, Barrick TR, Markus HS. Progression of MRI markers in cerebral small vessel disease: Sample size considerations for clinical trials. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. (2016) 36(1):228-40.
Benjamin P, Lawrence AJ, Lambert C, Patel B, Chung AW, MacKinnon AD, Morris RG, Barrick TR, Markus HS. Strategic lacunes and their relationship to cognitive impairment in cerebral small vessel disease. Neuroimage Clin. (2014) 21;4:828-37
Nagendran A, Patel B and Khan U. The Zebra sign: an unknown unknown. Practical
Neurology 2016;16(1)48-9
2015 Bhavini Patel, Zeena R Ladva and Usman Khan. Hemichorea-hemiballism: a case report. Practical Neurology 2015;15(3):222-3
2013 Lawrence and Patel et al. Mechanism of cognitive impairment in cerebral small
vessel disease disease: multimodal MRI results from St George’s Cognition and Neuroimaging in Stroke (SCANS) Study. PLoS One 2013;8(4):e61014
2013 Patel B et al. Cerebral microbleeds and cognition in patients with symptomatic
small vessel disease. Stroke 2013;44(2):356-61
2012 Brookes et al. Depressive symptoms as a predictor of quality of life in cerebral small
vessel disease, acting independently of disability; a study in both sporadic small vessel disease and CADASIL. Int J Stroke. 2012 Feb 26 [Epub ahead of print].
2010 Patel B and Markus HS. Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Cerebral Small Vessel
Disease and its use as a surrogate disease marker. International Journal of Stroke
2010;6(1):47-59
2007 SR Rahman, B Patel, A Haji and T Bates. Breast Carcinoma Masquerading as
Recurrent PrimaryBreast Lymphoma. Int J Clin Practice 2008; 62(6):968-9
Book Chapters:
Patel B and Birns J. (2015). Post Stroke Cognitive Impairment. In: Bhalla A and Birns J (Eds) Management of Post stroke complications. Springer Publications. pp 277-306
Patel B and Bahra A (2015). Bell’s palsy in Pregnancy. In: Hollingworth T. (Ed). 2nd edition. Differential Diagnosis in Obstetrics & Gynaecology: An A-Z. CRC Press pp25-29.
