Dr Timothy Yates
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Location:
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
GMC/GDC number:
7045919
Professional background
Dr Timothy Yates is a consultant neurologist in the Headache & Facial Pain Group at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, having been appointed in 2021.
After qualifying with distinction from Cambridge in 2009, Dr Yates trained at Addenbrooke’s and then in London at University College Hospital, with higher clinical and academic training in neurology, and its subspecialties, at Queen Square and the Royal Free. He gained his PhD from Cambridge. Early in his neurology training, he developed a particular interest in the management of refractory headache disorders, particularly chronic migraine, the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, and facial pain syndromes.
Dr Timothy Yates co-authors the regional headache guidance, provides independent clinical advice to NICE Technology Appraisals of new headache treatments, supports the Headache Academy and Queen Square Neurology MSc postgraduate teaching courses, and works on health data to improve outcomes. He has contributed to scientific papers and book chapters, and spoken at international headache meetings. His consultant post links with the North Middlesex Hospital, where his work encompasses the full range of in- and out-patient general neurology, and he is Chief Medical Information Officer.
Research interests
- Complex headache
- Clinical informatics
Publications
Yates, T.J.V. (2023) ‘Benign paroxysmal torticollis’, in Swanson, J. & Matharu, M. (ed.) Migraine biology, diagnosis, and co-morbidities. Elsevier, ch. 20
Mehta, J., Yates, T., Smith, P., Henderson, D., Winteringham, G., Burns, A. (2020) Rapid Implementation of Microsoft Teams in Response to Covid-19: One Acute Healthcare Organisation's Experience. BMJ Health & Care Informatics 27:e100209
Lim, S.T., Yates, T., Angus-Leppan, H. (2020) Out of sight: a lesson in drug errors. Practical Neurology 20(3):243
Warrell, C., Doshi, A., Mayhew, J., McColgan, P., Yates, T., Rohrer, J., Ingle, G. (2013) Quality Improvement Project: Detecting, instigating and assessing effective handover techniques. JNNP 84(11):e2
Yates, T.J.V., Ward, T., Lennox, G.G. (2010) Early use of amantadine may postpone levodopa-induced dyskinesia and cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Movement Disorders 25(Suppl.3):S642
Yates, T.J.V., Crawley, F. (2010) Reminder of important clinical lesson: Paroxysmal symptoms in multiple sclerosis masquerading as transient ischaemic attack. BMJ Case Reports