Dr Anna Basu

Dr Anna Basu is a clinical senior lecturer at Newcastle University and honorary consultant paediatric neurologist at the Great North Childrens Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. She studied preclinical medicine at Cambridge, including a research year using transcranial magnetic stimulation to investigate the corticospinal tract in adults following stroke. She obtained a first class honours degree and subsequently trained in clinical medicine at Oxford. Her paediatric neurology training was undertaken in Newcastle upon Tyne. She completed a PhD in neuroscience with Professor Eyre in 2007, assessing cortical plasticity following early brain lesions: this led to papers in Annals of Neurology and Journal of Neuroscience. She completed an NIHR Clinical Trials Fellowship (2013) and was awarded an NIHR Career Development Fellowship around early intervention in perinatal stroke (2014-2018). Her research focusses on early intervention and improving upper limb function in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Associate Editor, MacKeith Press; Director, EI SMART.