Dr Rimona Weil

Consultant neurologist & clinician scientist
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Dr Rimona Weil is a Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and a Clinician Scientist. She runs clinics that manage patients with Parkinson’s dementia and Dementia with Lewy Bodies. She studied medicine at Downing College, Cambridge and at UCL, and undertook a PhD in neuroscience at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL. She was awarded a post-doctoral UCL Excellence Fellowship to study visual changes in Parkinson’s disease. Currently, she runs a Wellcome-funded longitudinal study on predictors of dementia in Parkinson’s disease, using neuroimaging, retinal and cognitive markers.