Organisation
Clinic patron
Dr Marcia Wilkinson founded the clinic together with Dr Nat Blau in 1980 as an independent registered medical charity affiliated with St Bartholomew's Hospital.
She has a long standing interest in migraine as evidenced by her numerous publications. She became Patron on her retirement in 1997. Dr. Wilkinson won the first Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Award, presented at the Headache World meeting in London in 2000.
Clinic Board
Dr J N Blau (Chairman)
Dr Anne MacGregor (Vice Chairman)
Ms Heather Sim (non-voting member)
Dr Giles Elrington
Dr I Margaronis
Ms Allison Ogden-Newton
Mr Howard Morris
Mr Henry Manisty
Our Team
Heather Sim, is the Chief Executive of the City of London Migraine Clinic. She holds a Masters degree in Business Administration, is a Prince II practitioner (project management), a trained facilitator and mediator. Heather also holds clinical qualifications and is on the NMC register as a Nurse, Health Visitor and Lecturer Practitioner. She serves a local community mediation service as a volunteer.
Our medical directors are supported by seven sessional doctors and together they bring a wide variety of expertise to the Clinic. All the doctors are fully qualified and registered with the General Medical Council.
Alison Frith MSc BSc(Hons) RGN MICR is our Clinical Research Sister. She manages our research projects and has recently published the book Coping with Headaches and Migraine (Sheldon Press). She was also the recipient of the award for 'Best Healthcare Professional 2008' at the Migraine Heroes Awards of that year.
To run the Clinic we have an office administrator, a medical secretary and several volunteers to whom we are very grateful for all their generous help.
For further information please have a look at our latest annual accounts.
