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Alan Carson
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Part Time Senior Lecturer |
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Alan Carson studied medicine and then psychiatry in Edinburgh. Following a period of research studying the neuropsychiatric effects of HIV infection in Kenya he completed his higher training at the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed as a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital before moving to his current post as Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Part time Senior Lecturer. He runs a Scottish national service for brain injured patients (the Robert Fergusson Unit) and a regional general neuropsychiatric service (based at the department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital). He is also depute chairman of the Scottish Managed Clinical Network for Acquired Brain Injury and the Scottish Mental Health Research Network. He is on the editorial board of ‘Brain Injury’. |
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