BSc MRCP PhD

Education and training

Neurology registrar, Southampton General Hospital, 2024
Neuromuscular fellowship, Wessex Neurological Centre and some experience at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023
Core medical trainee, West of Scotland, 2018
Foundation doctor, South Thames Foundation School, 2016
MBBCh Medicine, Cardiff University. Commendation, 2014
Research associate, Cardiff University, 2009
PhD. Department of Psychological Medicine and Neurology, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, 2006
BSc Neuroscience, Cardiff University. 1st Class Honours, 2003

Experience

Dr Carroll has subspecialist interest in disorders of muscle and nerve, including muscular dystrophies, inflammatory myopathies and hereditary neuropathies. He completes a monthly clinic with a neuromuscular specialist physiotherapist.

Dr Carroll has a subspecialist interest in neurogenetic disorders and completes a monthly clinic covering a wide-range of people with neurogenetic conditions including mitochondrial disorders, hereditary ataxia, hereditary spastic paraparesis, motor neurone disease, leukodystrophy and rare, syndromic neurological disorders.

Dr Carroll completes a monthly joint-clinic with a consultant clinical geneticist for people with suspected neurogenetic disorders, and a twice-yearly clinic for individuals with suspected Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome.

Dr Carroll is part of the Jacksplace one-stop clinic for people with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, completing ~4 clinics per year. He is also is part of the Association of British Neurologists Neuromuscular Advisory Group, helping to advise on conditions such as Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Myasthenia Gravis. He also has experience in performing muscle biopsies.

Awards and prizes

British Peripheral Nerve Society, Liverpool, UK. Oral case presentation. 1st prize - 2024
British Peripheral Nerve Society, Winchester, UK. Oral case presentation. 1st prize - 2023
South East Neurological Association. Oral case presentation. 1st prize - 2022
Richard Arnold Prize (Cardiff University) - Best Student Selected Component Research Project - 2012

Research

Dr Carroll is principal investigator for a clinical trial being set up for people with myotonic dystrophy.

Dr Carroll has completed clinical audit on a wide-range of neurological disease topics, including:

[1] 2023 Association of British Neurologists Annual Meeting. Poster presentation. Rituximab use for refractory myasthenia gravis in Wessex.
[2] 2018 International Symposium on MND/ALS, Glasgow, UK. Poster presentation. Evaluation of delay to diagnosis in a cohort of individuals with motor neurone disease assessed within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Dr Carroll has publications on a wide range of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, with some examples being:

[1] Submitted and under revision: Dubuisson, et al. Genotype–phenotype modulation by co-occurring m.3243A>G and m.3290T>C variants: a case report and literature review. Neurology® Genetics
[2] Carroll LS, et al. HNRNPA2B1 myopathy presenting in a family with an early onset oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy like phenotype. Neuromuscul Disord. 2024
[3] Carroll LS, et al. Desminopathy presenting as late onset bilateral facial weakness, with diagnosis supported by lower limb MRI. Neuromuscul Disord. 2021
[4] Carroll LS, et al. Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian Atrophy: An Update. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). 2018
[5] Carroll LS & Owen MJ. Genetic overlap between autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Genome Medicine. 2009
[6] Martin et al. The benefit of evolving multidisciplinary care in ALS: a diagnostic cohort. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2017

Contact

You can contact Dr Carroll by email neurology.admin@uhs.nhs.uk