Dr Paul Watts

Dr Paul Watts is a Consultant Neurologist with NHS appointments at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital where he is a Clinical Director for Neurology and Neurophysiology  and The Royal Free Hospital where he is Training Programme Director for Neurology. Dr Watts has held these management posts for over 15 years.

Dr Watts has been in Consultant practice for 24 years having completed his registrar training in neurology at the Royal Free, Queen Square and Mount Sinai Hospitals (New York). He practices in all areas of general neurology including epilepsy/blackouts, headache, peripheral nerve diseases and movement disorders and have a subspecialty interest in Parkinson’s disease having been awarded a PhD in neuroscience from King’s College London on Parkinson’s disease in 2002. Dr Watts also has an interest in vestibular/balance disorders and traumatic brain injury.

Dr Watts qualified MB BS from St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in 1990 (with Distinction) and undertook an intercalated BSc at Guy’s Hospital in 1986/87 in Experimental Pathology (First Class Honours). Thereafter, his general medical training was undertaken at The Royal Postgraduate Medical School (Hammersmith Hospital), The Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.  Dr Watts has published original scientific papers on many areas of the clinical neurosciences and am actively engaged in a number of research studies in one of my NHS hospitals.

Dr Watts teaches medical students, neurology residents and Consultant Colleagues on a weekly basis in his NHS hospitals and has managed a training programme in neurology which has trained dozens of the UKs currently practicing Consultant Neurologists. Dr Watts is frequently asked to provide second and subsequent opinions from other neurology Consultant colleagues in diagnostically challenging cases.