Brain & Nerve 
About Prof Heard
Rob Heard was born in Western Australia and educated in the UK. He studied medicine and neurology at Guys Hospital, the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and The Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London.
He trained in clinical neurophysiology at Westmead Hospital and his first consultant appointment was as staff specialist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. He has an Honours BSc in clinical pharmacology and a research MD in molecular immunogenetics. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists.
Prof Heard founded the Westmead MS clinic where he is a member of a genetics research team which identified the first new MS susceptibility gene in more than 30 years and which has published widely, including papers in Nature, Nature Genetics, Lancet Neurology, J Immunology and NEJM. He has participated in several clinical trials and was inaugural Chairman of the MSRA Clinical Trials Network. He is a Committee Member of ANZAN Asia Pacific. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, a Fellow and Australian Advisory Member for the Royal College of Physicians (UK) and an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He is a conjoint professor in the University of Newcastle and clinical associate professor in the University of Sydney.He is in clinical practice on the NSW Central Coast and is a visiting neurologist and neurophysiologist at Gosford and Wyong Hospitals and Gosford Private Hospital. He is an honorary consultant at Westmead Hospital.
