Dr John O'Sullivan (General Physician)

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Name
Dr John Daniel O'Sullivan
Qualifications
FRACP
MBBS University of Queensland 1988
Occupation
General Physician
Neurologist
Gender
Male
Medical Specialties
General Medicine
Neurology

After completing neurology training at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, A/Prof O’Sullivan completed Fellowships in Movement Disorders at the Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne then the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Middlesex Hospital in London, UK. He was awarded a doctorate in Medicine from Melbourne University in 2000 for studies into surgery for Parkinson’s disease.

He returned to Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (RBWH) and set up the Movement Disorders Clinical Service including botulinum toxin and later Friedreich's ataxia clinics, and co-ordinating the Huntington's disease multidisciplinary clinic. Through these clinics he has established collaborations with local, interstate and international researchers in the fields of Parkinson's disease, movement disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.

He is currently Associate Professor of Medicine and Principal Research Fellow at UQ Centre for Clinical Research, previously Royal Brisbane and Uniting Care Health Clinical Units in UQ School of Clinical Medicine. He is also Senior Research Fellow at Wesley Medical Research.

A/Prof O'Sullivan is on the Board of the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research and is currently President of the Movement Disorders Society of Australia and New Zealand (MDSANZ), having previously served as Chair of the MDSANZ Clinical Trials and Research Group.

Hospital Affiliations
St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital
Affiliated Universities
University of Queensland

Practice Locations

QLD

St Andrew’s Place
Level 2
33 North Street
Spring Hill QLD 4000 
Australia
07 3832 0501
07 3839 7637