About the Authors
Dr Geoffrey Leader MB ChB FRCA
Dr Geoffrey Leader, a graduate of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in London,
is a Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Medical Director of The Parkinson Disease Integrated Nutritional Clinic in London. He
is a leading pioneer in the multi-disciplinary management of chronic illness.
The special interest of his Clinic is the optimisation of functional health in
people with Parkinson's Disease.
Dr Geoffrey Leader has held senior academic posts internationally. In the UK
his last appointment was Chairman of the Anaesthetic Department, Head
of Intensive Care and Pain Clinic at Newham General Hospital, London and
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Senior Consultant at The Royal London Hospital
Medical College. In South Africa he held academic appointments at Natal
and Witwatersrand Universities and in The Netherlands at The University of
Erasmus. He is co-author and editor of these successful books:
- Parkinson's Disease - Dopamine Metabolism, Applied Biochemistry & Nutrition
(Denor Press,
London, UK) ISBN: 978 0 9526056 6 9
- Parkinson's Disease - Reducing Symptoms with Nutrition and Drugs
(Denor Press,
London, UK) ISBN: 0 9526056 9 4
- Parkinson's Disease - The Way Forward!
(Denor Press, London, UK)
ISBN: 0 9526056 8 6
-
Morbo Di Parkinson - Suggerimenti Nutrizionali (Pythagora Press, Milan, Italy) with Professors Aroldo Rossi and Lia Rossi Prosperi ISBN: 88 85852 31 9
- Co-author, with Lucille Leader, of the book Parkinson's Disease - The New Nutritional Handbook ISBN: 0 9526056 1 9 (Denor Press, London, UK). It is out of print but has been included, updated and replaced in the newly revised book, entitled Parkinson's Disease - Reducing Symptoms With Nutrition And Drugs (Denor Press) ISBN: 978 0 9526056 4 5. Parkinson's Disease - Reducing Symptoms With Nutrition And Drugs Buy Now: Click Here
Dr Geoffrey Leader is particularly interested in the intravenous nutritional
support of patients with Parkinson's Disease as well as the specialised details
of their management during anaesthesia and sedation and the patient's
detoxification from anaesthetic drugs. He has presented papers on anaesthetic
subjects at international congresses and has published in prestigious
anaesthetic journals. Parkinson's Disease Congress presentations include:
- "The Intravenous Aspects of Nutritional Support in Parkinson's Disease"
at the Parkinson's Disease Congress for Nutrition and Sexuality in Vienna
in 1999.
- "Nutritional Therapy and Cellular Environment in Parkinson's Disease" at
the ground-breaking Parkinson's symposium "Meeting of the Minds" in
the USA in 2004.
- "Specialized Nutritional Management in Parkinson's Disease" at the
5th Multi-disciplinary Conference of the European Parkinson's Disease
Association (EPDA) in Lisbon, 2004
www.epdaconferences.org
He was honoured in the United States with a Quality of Life Award for Parkinson's in 2004.
Dr Geoffrey Leader is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Anaesthetists and
The Royal Society of Medicine in the United Kingdom.
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