Biography
Jean-Pierre Lin qualified in medicine at Edinburgh University in 1983 and obtained a PhD from Edinburgh University on 'Motor Assessments in Cerebral Palsy' in 1998. He was appointed ~Consultant Paediatric Neurologist and Director of the One Small Step Gait and Movement Laboratory at Guy's Hospital in 1997-8. In 2005 Jean-Pierre Lincreated the Complex Motor Disorders Service to deliver Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Intrathecal Baclofen (ITB) neurosurgical neuromodulation to children with movement disorders including dystonia, chorea and myoclonus (including the cerebral palsies) and created a multidisciplinary research team.
Jean-Pierre Lin has has over 160 peer reviewed publications. He has been President of the British Paediatric Neurology Association (BPNA) 2016-18 and is Chair of the European Paediatric Neurology Society Membership Committee 2022-present
KCL Undergraduate Teaching year 4 UG termly blocks: From 1998-2016 I devised and co-ordinated a highly popular 4-hour symposium on ‘Neurological Gait Disorders’ within ‘Emergency Medicine,Trauma and Locomotion’ block three times a year to the year 4 undergraduates until the curriculum changed.
KCL iBSc Clinical Tutor and Final Presentation Examiner of whole class presentations: Maternal and Fetal Health iBSc Projects 2023-24 Start Jan 2024-June 2024. Project 9: ‘The application of the WHO International Classification of Function in Childhood-onset Movement Disorders including Cerebral Palsy’: a 45-credit iBSc Module 6BBL0301: ‘Maternal and Fetal Health Research Project’. This module is run by the Department of Physiology in the School of Bioscience Education for intercalating medics and BSc students that have taken Reproductive Endocrinology in year 2. The Research Project is a core module on the Women's Health iBSc Programme.
The module organiser is: Dr Paul Taylor paul.taylor@kcl.ac.uk As part of the faculty I evaluated all 25 Maternal & Fetal Health Research Project presentations (2024 graduation year candidates)
KCL Undergraduate Teaching year 4 UG termly blocks: From 1998-2016 I devised and co-ordinated a highly popular 4-hour symposium on ‘Neurological Gait Disorders’ within ‘Emergency Medicine,Trauma and Locomotion’ block three times a year to the year 4 undergraduates until the curriculum changed.
KCL iBSc Clinical Tutor and Final Presentation Examiner of whole class presentations: Maternal and Fetal Health iBSc Projects 2023-24 Start Jan 2024-June 2024. Project 9: ‘The application of the WHO International Classification of Function in Childhood-onset Movement Disorders including Cerebral Palsy’: a 45-credit iBSc Module 6BBL0301: ‘Maternal and Fetal Health Research Project’. This module is run by the Department of Physiology in the School of Bioscience Education for intercalating medics and BSc students that have taken Reproductive Endocrinology in year 2. The Research Project is a core module on the Women's Health iBSc Programme.
The module organiser is: Dr Paul Taylor paul.taylor@kcl.ac.uk As part of the faculty I evaluated all 25 Maternal & Fetal Health Research Project presentations (2024 graduation year candidates)