Professor Michael Lunn is a full-time Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Lead in Neuroimmunology at the National Hospital for Neurology in London and Joint Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Neuromuscular Disease Group.

He trained in Cambridge (Emmanuel College), London (Charing Cross and Westminster, Guy’s Kings and St Thomas and NHNN) and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA. He has been a Consultant Neurologist since 2005. He is President of the British Peripheral Nerve Society, Ex-Chair of the Association of British Neurologists Neuromuscular Academic Advisory Board and previously Treasurer and Board Member for the Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium and the Peripheral Nerve Society.

His clinical practice concentrates on inflammatory peripheral nerve diseases which feeds his research interests and includes the pathogenesis and treatment of CIDP, MMNCB, vasculitis and GBS as well as the measurement of outcomes in trials and day to day practice. He has developed an increasing interest in neuropathies associated with haematological disorders and runs the UK’s first Neuro-Haematology clinic concentrating on paraproteinaemic neurology. He also looks after one of the largest world series of POEMS patients. During the COVID-19 pandemic he has extended his interests to COVID-19 immunological disease responses and monitoring of disease and vaccination related neurological complications.

His major clinical achievements are the development of a world-renowned expertise in inflammatory neuropathies of all sorts, based on the successful application of classical medical diagnostics supported by the Neuroimmunology and CSF Laboratory for which he has clinical oversight and which leads the UK NHS neuroimmunological services in a number of areas.

He is author of more than 200 publications and systematic reviews in his areas of interest and his H-index is 50with more than 12500 citations – not bad for 4 hours a week in research!

Outside medicine he continues in more sedate careers enjoying family life and his friends, singing with the Byrd Consort and other ad hoc choirs, playing golf and working his Cocker Spaniel.