Professor Michael is a Senior Clinician Scientist Fellow and leads the Infection Neuroscience Lab at the Institute for Infection Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool and an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at The Walton Centre.
In 2020 he led the first nationwide surveillance studies of the neurological complications of COVID-19 in adults and of children published in the Lancet Psychiatry and Lancet Adolescent and Child Health. He also provided expert comment on the emerging topic across UK and international media.
He co-lead the £2.3 million UKRI-funded COVID-Clinical Neuroscience Study, which is working to better understand the disease mechanisms of these neurological complications of SARS-CoV2.
He is Vice Chair of the Encephalitis International's Scientific Advisory Panel and an Advisor to the Meningitis Research Foundation. He has worked as a Royal College of Physicians Faculty Tutor in West Africa and with the NIHR to promote Patient and Public Engagement in research.
Professor Michael presented his lecture, entitled ‘Basic clinical introduction to infection encephalitis,’ at the annual Encephalitis International Conference, in London in 2023. There is a Q&A at the end. You can watch the talk by clicking on the video below.
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