Dr Camilla Blain
Professional profile
Dr Blain qualified in 1997, having studied Medicine at Cambridge University and Imperial College, London. She won a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship and was awarded a PhD in 2008. She completed her Neurology specialist training in London, becoming a Consultant Neurologist in 2012. She has been the Clinical Director of Neurosciences since January 2023. In her role as CD, she works in collaboration with other Neurosciences senior leaders (the General Manager, Head of Nursing, Head of Therapies) to oversee and provide leadership to a team of 6 care groups, namely neurorehabilitation, neuroradiology, neurology, stroke, pain, and neurosurgery.
She is committed to improving and developing Neurosciences services at St George’s Hospital including developing research and educational interests in this field. One of the ways she personally contributes to this is by being an educational supervisor to three Neurology trainee doctors annually, as she has been for over 10 years as part of the Neurology & Stroke Local Faculty Group.
Clinical interests
Dr Blain is a consultant neurologist with a specialist interest in central nervous system inflammatory conditions, predominantly Multiple Sclerosis. She also sees patients with Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder and neurosarcoidosis, among others. Additionally, she is on the stroke on-call rota, managing patients requiring thrombolysis or thrombectomy, out-of-hours.
Dr Blain runs six clinics a month devoted to MS patients, managing their care at all stages of the disease and working closely with the MS Clinical Nurse Specialists. She has two general neurology clinics a month, which take place at Queen Mary’s Hospital, in Roehampton.
Prizes, memberships and fellowships
- Member, Royal College of Physicians
- Member, Association of British Neurologists
- Member, British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine
- Member, Medical Protection Society
