Dr Prab Prabhakar is Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. Educated at Stanley Medical College, Chennai, India, where he read medical sciences, he pursued a career as a paediatric neurologist, completing his clinical training in the UK.
His specialist interest is in Children’s Headache disorders. He joined the first dedicated Children’s Headache Clinic in England at Great Ormond Street Hospital and has led the service since 2007.
His research interest includes mental health comorbidities in children with headache, outcome measurement of headache disorders and newer therapies in headache disorder.
He is a Trustee for The Migraine Trust charity since March 2026.
