Dr Mark Weatherall is Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Lead for Neurology at the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, the previous Chair of the British Association for the Study of Headache and a former Trustee of The Migraine Trust. He was a highly regarded historian of medicine before studying clinical medicine at Cambridge. Junior medical jobs followed in Cambridge, London and Oxford, before he completed his specialist training in neurology in the North-West of England. He spent twelve months as a clinical research fellow at the Headache Group at the Institute of Neurology in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh.
His main interests are the diagnosis and management of chronic headache disorders, facial pain, visual snow and secondary headaches associated with systemic disorders. He has made presentations on these subjects at recent meetings of the International Headache Society, the European Headache Federation and Migraine Trust, and the Association of British Neurologists.