External resources
Current NHS consultant posts held
01/11/05-06/08/13 Neurology Consultant, Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust/ Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
07/08/2013 Neurology Consultant, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
07/08/13-Current Professor, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford and Consultant Neurologist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Research interests
Michele is co-Principal Investigator of the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC), established in 2009 with the £10.7 million Parkinson’s UK-funded Monument Discovery Award to understand the early pathological pathways in Parkinson’s (http://opdc.medsci.ox.ac.uk). Research interests include the use of longitudinal clinical cohorts and brain imaging to develop biomarkers for the early diagnosis/prognostication of Parkinson’s
Personal interests
Gardening, playing the piano, running and spending time with her husband and children outdoors
(Additional) Languages spoken
Publications
Selected recent publications:
1. Arora S, Baig F, Lo C, Barber TA, Lawton MA, Zhan A, Rolinski M, Ruffmann C, Klein JC, Rumbold J, Louvel A, Zaiwalla A, Lennox G, Quinnell T, Dennis G, Wade-Martins R, Ben-Shlomo Y, Little MA, Hu MTM. Smartphone motor testing to distinguish idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder, controls and PD. Neurology, 2018, DOI 10.1212/WNL.0000000000006366.
2. Barber T, Ludovica G, Muhammed K, Drew D, Bradley K, Crabbe M, Lo C, Mackay C, Husain M, Hu MTM, Klein J. Apathy in rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder is associated with serotonin depletion in the dorsal raphe nucleus. Brain, 2018, Oct 1;141(10):2848-2854. doi: 10.1093/brain/awy240.
3.Lawton M, Ben-Shlomo Y, May MT, Baig F, Barber TR, Klein, JC, Swallow DMA, Malek N, Grosset KA, Bajaj N, Barker RA, Williams N, Burn DJ, Foltynie T, Morris HR, Wood NW, Grosset DG, Hu MT. Developing and validating Parkinson’s disease subtypes and their motor and cognitive progression. JNNP 2018;0:1-9. doi:10.1136/jnnp-2018-318337.
4. Barber TA, Muhammed K, Drew D, Lawton M, Crabbe M, Rolinski M, Quinnell T, Zaiwalla, Z, Ben-Shlomo Y, Husain M, Hu MT*. Apathy in rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder is common and under-recognised. Eur J Neurol 2018, Mar;25(3):469-e32. doi: 10.1111/ene.13515. Epub 2017 Dec 14.
5. Barber TR, Lawton M, Rolinski M, Evetts S, Baig F, Ruffmann C, Gornall A, Klein JC, Lo C, Dennis G, Bandmann O, Quinnell T, Zaiwalla Z, Ben-Shlomo Y, Hu MT*. Prodromal Parkinsonism and neurodegenerative risk stratification in REM sleep behaviour disorder. Sleep 2017 Aug 1;40(8).
6. Baig F, Lawton MA, Rolinski M, Ruffmann C, Klein JC, Nithi K, Okai D, Ben-Shlomo Y, Hu MTM*. Personality and addictive behaviours in early Parkinson’s disease and REM sleep behavior disorder. Park Rel Dis. 2017,37:72-28.
7. Michal Rolinski, Ludovica Griffanti, Paola Piccini, Roussakis AA, Szewczyk-Krolikowski K, Menke RA, Quinnell T, Zaiwalla Z, Klein JC, Mackay CE, Hu MT*. Basal ganglia dysfunction in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder parallels that in early Parkinson’s disease. Brain 2016; 139:2224-34.
8. Rolinski MR, Zokaei N, Baig F, Giehl K, Quinnell T, Zaiwalla Z, Mackay CE, Husain M, Hu MTM*. Visual short-term memory deficits in REM sleep behavior disorder mirror those in Parkinson’s disease. Brain 2016, 139:47-53.
Courses offered to GPs
Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Seminars
