Dr Micheal (Mike) Taylor

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Profile

Dr Micheál (Mike) Taylor is a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist based in Leeds with an NHS practice in Leeds Children’s Hospital, which is one of the largest children’s hospitals in Europe. As a tertiary paediatric neurologist, his NHS practice encompasses a population of 5 million people throughout North, East and West Yorkshire and North-East Lincolnshire and Goole.

Dr Taylor is an expert in paediatric headache disorders with a specialised NHS headache clinic. He has a particular interest in migraine. He will soon be undertaking greater occipital nerve injections through his NHS and private practice. Dr Taylor is also undertaking clinical trials in newer therapies for the pharmacological management of migraine.

Dr Taylor is also an expert in epilepsy, with a particular interest in complex developmental epileptic encephalopathies. He runs the only Dravet Syndrome specific clinic in the UK. Dr Taylor is part of the project management committee of the SCN1A Horizons study.

Dr Taylor runs a specialised clinic managing neuroinflammatory disorders including multiple sclerosis (MS), MOGAD, neuromyelitis optica, autoimmune encephalitis, and opsoclonus-myoclonus.

As a paediatric neurologist, Dr Taylor’s expertise extends to abnormalities of gait including toe-walking, disorders of muscle and nerve, cerebral palsy, developmental delay, and faints, fits and funny turns.

Dr Taylor also undertakes medicolegal consultations.

Dr Taylor consults privately at Kingsbridge Private Hospital, Belfast and Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital.

Dr Taylor completed his primary medical qualification (MBBCh BAO) with an intercalated BSc in Anatomy through Queen’s University of Belfast.

During his core paediatric neurology training in Northern Ireland, he undertook placements within paediatric neurology, paediatric neurodisability, community paediatrics, paediatric intensive care, neonatal intensive care, and general paediatrics.

Dr Taylor completed higher specialist paediatric neurology GRID training at Leeds Children’s Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Dr Taylor is a member of both the British Paediatric Neurology Association and the European Paediatric Neurology Society.

Dr Taylor is deeply committed to medical education and clinical research. He holds the position of Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds and his academic work has been published in various reputable journals. These include the European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, and Frontiers in Neurology.

Current NHS Posts

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Leeds Children’s Hospital

Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds

Personal profile

Dr Taylor is originally from Castlewellan, Co Down. He lives with his wife Lauren and son Henry in Yorkshire. He is an avid cyclist and home cook.

Qualifications

MBBCh BAO (2011) Queens University Belfast

BSc(Hons) (2008) Queens University Belfast

FRCPCH – Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Sabanathan S, Abdel-Mannan O, Mankad K, Siddiqui A, Das K, Carr L, Eltze C, Eyre M, Gadian J, Hemingway C, Kaliakatsos M, Kneen R, Krishnakumar D, Lynch B, Parida A, Rossor T, Taylor M, Wassmer E, Wright S, Lim M, Hacohen Y.

Neurological manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalised children and adolescents in the UK: a prospective national cohort study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2021 Sep;5(9):631-641. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00193-0. Epub 2021 Jul 15. Erratum in: Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2021 Sep;5(9):e38. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00238-8. Erratum in: Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2021 Dec;5(12):e46.

Ray STJ, Abdel-Mannan O, Sa M, Fuller C, Wood GK, Pysden K, Yoong M, McCullagh H, Scott D, McMahon M, Thomas N, Taylor M, Illingworth M, McCrea N, Davies V, Whitehouse W, Zuberi S, Guthrie K, Wassmer E, Shah N, Baker MR, Tiwary S, Tan HJ, Varma U, Ram D, Avula S, Enright N, Hassell J, Ross Russell AL, Kumar R, Mulholland RE, Pett S, Galea I, Thomas RH, Lim M, Hacohen Y, Solomon T, Griffiths MJ, Michael BD, Kneen R; CoroNerve study group.

Publications

Long term outcome in non-multiple sclerosis paediatric acquired demyelinating syndromes. Eur J Paediatr Neurol. 2024 Jul 6;52:52-58.

Wassmer E, Billaud C, Absoud M, Abdel-Mannan O, Benetou C, Cummins C, Forrest K, De Goede C, Eltantawi N, Hickson H, Hussain N, Jardine P, Livingston JH, Mordekar S, Ramdas S, Taylor M, Vijayakumar K, West S, Whitehouse WP, Kneen R, Hemingway C, Lim M, Hacohen Y, Wright S; PUDDLS STUDY GROUP.

CNTNAP2 Variant Identified in Two Consanguineous Pakistani Families With Developmental Delay, Epilepsy, Intellectual Disability, and Aggressive Behavior. Front Neurol. 2022 Jul 14;13:918022.

Badshah N, Mattison KA, Ahmad S, Chopra P, Johnston HR, Ahmad S, Khan SH, Sarwar MT, Cutler DJ, Taylor M, Vadlamani G, Zwick ME, Escayg A. Novel Missense