Meet the team

Dr Georgina Burke

Dr Burke provides a neurology service to Portsmouth and a specialist myasthenia and neuromuscular service for Wessex. This includes neuromuscular patients transitioning from childrens to adult services.

• Contact her Southampton secretary on 023 8120 6783
• Portsmouth patients can call 023 9228 6000, extension 3909

Dr Nancy Colchester 

Dr Colchester is a consultant neurologist. She holds two general neurology clinics per week, and participates in the acute neurology rota, providing a neurology service for inpatients around the hospital. She is also part of the acute stroke service.

You can contact her secretary on 023 8120 5434.

Dr Jonathan Frankel

Dr Frankel has an special interest in movement disorders.

• Contact his Southampton secretary on 023 8120 8725
• Portsmouth patients can call his secretary on 023 9228 6000, extension 3909

Dr Boyd Ghosh

Dr Ghosh works across Salisbury and Southampton, seeing mostly general neurology patients in Salisbury and patients with cognitive disorders and atypical movement disorders in Southampton.

• Contact his Southampton secretary on 023 8120 4030.
• Salisbury patients can call 01722 429233.

Dr William Gibb

Dr Gibb runs clinics in general neurology, movement disorders, and botulinum therapy. He established a joint clinic in Huntington's disease.

• Contact his Southampton secretary on 023 8120 6781.
• Portsmouth patients can call 023 9228 6000, extension 3901

Dr Christopher Halfpenny

Dr Halfpenny has an interest in multiple sclerosis and related neuroinflammatory disorders of the central nervous system.

• Contact his Southampton secretary on 023 8120 8444
• Portsmouth patients can call 023 9228 6000, extension 3901

Dr Simon Hammans

Dr Hammans holds a weekly clinic in muscle disease and neurogenetics in Southampton. He's also the director of the regional muscle and nerve service for Wessex.

You can call his Southampton secretary on 023 8120 4030.

Dr Haider Katifi

Dr Katifi has a special interest in peripheral nerve disorders.

You can call his secretary on 023 8120 6781.

Dr Lucy Kinton

Dr Kinton works in acute inpatient neurology and general neurology outpatients. She runs a specialist epilepsy clinic, and has a special interest in neurological sleep disorders.

You can call her secretary 023 8120 5771.

Dr Christopher Kipps

Dr Kipps has general medicine and neurology experience from a wide variety of settings and has a particular interest in cognitive and movement disorders.

• Contact his secretary on 023 8120 5434.
• Winchester patients can call 019 6282 4507 

Dr Joanna Kitley

Dr Kitley has a special interest in multiple sclerosis and neuroinflammation. She holds clinics at Southampton General Hospital on Thursday afternoons.

• Contact her secretary on 023 8120 8444
• Portsmouth patients can call 023 9228 6000, extension 6807

Dr Joanna Lovett

Dr Lovett has a special interest in stroke. She developed the 24 hour stroke thrombolysis service in Southampton General Hospital.

• Contact her secretary on 023 8120 6781
• Salisbury patients can call 01722 429233

Dr Alice Manson

Dr Manson has a special interest in movement disorders, and has extensive experience in the management of complex Parkinson's disease.

• Contact her Southampton secretary on 023 8120 6781
• Isle of Wight patients can call 019 8355 2106

Dr Adrian Miller 

Dr Miller has a special interest in neuromuscular disorders. He holds neuromuscular and motor neurone disease clinics.

• Contact his Southampton secretary on 023 8120 4030
• Basingstoke patients can call 01256 313256
• Winchester patients can call 01962 824507.

Dr Rhiannon Morris

Dr Morris has a special interest in stroke. She's part of the hospital's acute neurology service and is on the rota for acute stroke care.

You can call her secretary on 023 8120 8725.

Professor Karen Morrison

Dr George Pengas

Dr Pengas has special interests in cognitive neurology, normal pressure hydrocephalus, general neurology and acute neurology.

You can call his secretary on 023 8120 5434.

Dr Ashwin Pinto

Dr Pinto has a special interest in myasthenia gravis and motor neurone disease. He was responsible for establishing the myasthenia clinic and the plasma exchange service.

You can call his secretary on 023 8120 6783.

Dr Martin Prevett

Dr Prevett has over ten years of experience as a consultant, diagnosing and managing general neurology and epilepsy.

You can call his secretary on 023 8120 5771.

Dr Claudio Ruffmann

Dr Ruffmann is a consultant neurologist who specialises in Parkinson's disease. He has extensive experience in the management of complex Parkinson’s disease, including patients treated with infusion therapies and DBS.

You can call his secretary on 023 8120 5509.

Dr Sean Slaght

As well as providing general neurology and specialist epilepsy services to outpatients in Portsmouth, Dr Slaght runs a specialist epilepsy clinic at Southampton General Hospital.

• Contact his Southampton secretary on 023 8120 5771
• Portsmouth patients can call his secretaries at Queen Alexandra Hospital on 023 9228 6000, extension 6807

Dr Nicolas Weir

Dr Weir has a special interest in stroke.

Contact his neurology secretary on 023 8120 8725 or his stroke and TIA secretary on 023 8120 5792.