Rate My Professor Graeme Hammond-Tooke

Associate Professor Graeme Hammond-Tooke serves in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago's Dunedin School of Medicine, where he was promoted to his current position effective February 2012. As a clinical neurologist affiliated with Dunedin Hospital, he contributes to patient care and research within the Neurology Research Group. His research employs transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate cortical inhibition and excitability, including projects on theta burst stimulation of the cerebellum and the role of cilia in nerve regeneration in collaboration with Tony Poole and Koji Yamamoto. Hammond-Tooke is a founding member and steering committee participant of the New Zealand Neuromuscular Disease Patient Registry, established to facilitate research on neuromuscular disorders by registering over a thousand patients since its inception. He is also a member of the Neuromuscular Research Foundation Trust and the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand Scientific Advisory Committee. His academic interests span neuromuscular diseases, genetic muscle disorders, neuropathies such as Urtica ferox-related neuropathy, Parkinson's disease, chronic pain management, and quality of life predictors in affected populations.