NEW ZEALAND
Dr Nick Cutfield
Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago
Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Lead at Dunedin.
Director, National CJD Registry, New Zealand.
Nick has worked as a consultant neurologist since 2009. He is the clinical director of neurology at Dunedin Hospital, and a clinical senior lecturer at the University of Otago, where he directs the NZ Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Registry and the Dunedin Dementia Prevention Research Clinic.
He diagnoses and manages all types of adult neurological diseases and problems.
Some of these conditions are blackouts and seizures, multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory conditions, tremors, Parkinson’s disease, migraine and headaches.
He did research and training in vestibular (balance) and eye movement disorders in London and is currently involved in research developing early tests for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.