Dr Nazia Karsan PhD FRCP, is a Consultant Neurologist at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the Children’s Headache Clinic, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, and King’s College Hospital. She is a Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellow within the Headache Group at King’s College London. She has particular clinical and research interests, and expertise in headache disorders.
Her research focus is on understanding the neurobiology of primary headache disorders, particularly migraine, using experimental medicine and functional neuroimaging. She has additional interests in paediatric and adolescent headache, and in characterizing the extended migraine phenotype, to understand better disease mechanisms, and therefore advance therapeutics.
