Professor Marios Hadjivassiliou is a Consultant Neurologist with an interest in the neurological manifestations of systemic diseases, the ataxias and peripheral neuropathies. His primary research is in the neurological manifestations of gluten related diseases, an area that he has studied initially for his MD thesis and subsequently becoming the focus of his research career over the last 20 years. His pioneering research resulted in defining previously unrecognised disease entities such as gluten ataxia and gluten neuropathy. He has published extensively on the subject in high impact journals including 3 first author papers in the Lancet. He runs a weekly gluten sensitivity/neurology and ataxia clinics and receives referrals from all over the UK and Internationally. He is the director of the Sheffield Ataxia Centre accredited by Ataxia UK as an Ataxia Centre of Excellence (only 3 such centres in the UK) and founding member of the Sheffield Institute of Gluten Related Diseases (SIGReD). He is a member of the Medical Advisory Boards for Ataxia UK and Coeliac UK, Deputy Academic Director and Theme Lead for Neuroinflammation at the Academic Department of Neurosciences, Sheffield, UK. 

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