Dr Andrew Lux

Andrew Lux a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK. He has special responsibilities within his department for the management of epilepsy, fetal neurological abnormalities, and neuro-oncology. He graduated from Nottingham University Medical School in 1987 and trained in General Practice in Kingston-upon-Hull before undertaking paediatric training there and in Cardiff, Wales. He worked as a General Paediatrician in St Lucia, West Indies for 3 years before returning to the UK to train in Paediatric Neurology in Bristol.

He spent a year as a Fellow in Pediatric Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at St Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University in St Louis. He completed an MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a PhD at the University of Bath, where he presented a thesis on The Epidemiology and Treatment of Infantile Spasms. That work included research findings from the West Delphi Consensus on Case Definitions and Outcome Measures for Infantile Spasms (Epilepsia, 2004) and the initial trial findings from the United Kingdom Infantile Spasms Study (Lancet, 2004).

He later completed an MBA at The Open University, where he did a case study on Improving Systems and Processes on the Paediatric Epilepsy Services Programme. He has been an editorial board member of the journals Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Epileptic Disorders, and the European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. He has been a member of the Posterior Fossa Society since 2014.