Prof Hannah Cock

Clinical interests

Professor Cock is a consultant neurologist with a speciality in epilepsy, encompassing  all aspects of the diagnosis and management of epilepsy and dissociative/non-epileptic attack disorder in adult patients. She also has an interest in the medicolegal aspects of epilepsy and neurology education.

Professional profile

Prof Cock attained her honours degree in physiology from University College London in 1986, going on to receive her MBBS from the same university three years later. She obtained her MD in 1996, and her Professional Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in 2000.

She then completed Certificate Specialist Training in Neurology in 2001. Following completion of her research degree, she finished her neurology clinical training at the Royal Free and subsequently the National Hospital for Neurology, together with a post-doctoral clinician-scientist post. The is led to a Wellcome Advanced Fellowship, and the establishment of an experimental epilepsy group.

Professor Cock moved to a tenured clinical academic post at St George's in 2003, and has now moved into more clinical research. She is the epilepsy lead for the South London Clinical Research Network, is the local investigator for a range of clinical trials, and has an international profile in status epilepticus in particular. She is also the lead for neurology undergraduate education at St George's, University of London, a clinical lead on eBrain, a European neuroscience e-learning project, and Chair of the Education Committee of European Academy of Neurology.