Pinto, Dr Ashwin

MA BM BCh FRCP DPhil

Speciality

Neurology

Sub-speciality

Myasthenia Gravis, Motor Neurone Disease

Training and Education

1986-9: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University
1989-92: Balliol College, Oxford University
1996-9: New College, Oxford University (DPhil student)

Experience

Dr Pinto has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since November 2003. 

Post-graduate training in Neurology at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and Wessex Neurological Centre in Southampton

Postgraduate Research Fellow at the Neurosciences Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University

Key achievements

Establishment of Specialist Myasthenia Clinic and Plasma Exchange Service

Key awards and prizes

Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship 1996-9

Research

Pinto A, et al. Human autoantibodies specific for the alpha1A calcium channel subunit reduce both P-type and Q-type calcium currents in cerebellar neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (1998) 95(14): 8328-33.

Pinto A, et al. The action of Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome immunoglobulin G on cloned human voltage-gated calcium channels. Muscle Nerve. (2002) 25(5): 715-24.