David Nicholl (neurologist)
Dr David Nicholl is a neurologist, human rights activist, fundraiser for Amnesty International, and online columnist from Belfast, Northern Ireland.[1] In March 2006 he initiated a letter in the medical journal The Lancet, signed by more than 250 medical experts urging the United States to stop force-feeding at the Guantanamo Bay and close down the prison camp.[2] He is also a principal author of a reference work on neurological conditions [3]
Nicholl holds the position of consultant neurologist at City Hospital Hospital & Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and is honorary senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham,
Nicholl is a specialist in Parkinson's disease, and is best known scientifically for his participation in the project for cloning a gene, PARK8, linked with at least one form of the disease.[4]
In 2014, Nicholl signed a statement of support for Moazzam Begg, following Begg's arrest for allegations of supporting terrorism in the Syrian Civil War.[5]
References
- ↑ Dr David Nicholl at The Stirrer
- ↑ "Guantanamo medics 'fail patients' "
- ↑ Clinical Neurology CD-ROM.
- ↑ "Cloning of the gene containing mutations that cause PARK8-linked Parkinson's disease" by Paisan-Ruiz C, Jain S, Evans EW, Gilks WP, Simon J, van der Brug M, de Munain AL, Aparicio S, Gil AM, Khan N, Johnson J, Martinez JR, Nicholl D, Carrera IM, Pena AS, de Silva R, Lees A, Marti-Masso JF, Perez-Tur J, Wood NW, Singleton AB. Neurology 44(4):595-600 2004
- ↑ Statement of support for Moazzam Begg, 2014, Cageprisoners