Samia Elkommos

King’s College London

Introduction

Samia is a Neurology Specialist Registrar and Clinical Research Training Fellow in the Epilepsy group at King’s College London. She is jointly funded by a Clinical Research Training Fellowship from the Association of British Neurologists and Patrick Berthoud Charitable Trust. Her PhD focuses on using wearable sensors and remote monitoring technology to distinguish epileptic and functional non-epileptic seizures.

Samia obtained her medical degree and intercalated BSc in Neuroscience and Mental Health from Imperial College London. This was then followed by an Academic Foundation Program at the University of Liverpool (Epilepsy research group – Supervisors: Dr Simon Keller and Professor Tony Marson) and clinical posts in Liverpool and the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She then moved to St George’s Hospital in London in 2016 to take up an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Neurology and completed her Core Medical Training. She has been working as a Neurology and Stroke Specialist Registrar at St George’s Hospital, South West London since 2018.

Samia was a visiting researcher in the Richardson Lab in 2019 and was awarded a Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2020 by the ABN/ PBCT. She has now started a PhD in Clinical Neuroscience at King’s College London. The focus of her PhD project is using wearable sensors and remote monitoring technology to distinguish epileptic and functional non-epileptic seizures. Through this, she hopes to improve diagnosis of people with functional non-epileptic seizures and people with epilepsy, and also develop a better understanding of why functional non-epileptic seizures occur.

PhD Supervisors: Professor Mark Richardson and Dr Mahinda Yogarajah

Funding: Association of British Neurologists and Patrick Berthoud Charitable Trust (ABN/ PBCT)

Previous Research Experience:

  • NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow – St George’s University of London and King’s College London
  • Academic Foundation Program doctor – University of Liverpool and Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Qualifications:

  • MBBS –  Imperial College London (2013)
  • BSc Neuroscience and Mental Health – Imperial College London (2011)
  • Membership of the Royal College of Physicians MRCP (2016)
  • Postgraduate Certificate Healthcare and Biomedical Education – St George’s University of London (2019) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Core Expertise:

Clinical Neurology and Stroke

Speciality:

  • Neurology
  • Epilepsy
  • Functional (non-epileptic) seizures and Functional Neurological Disorders (FND)

Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samia_Elkommos

List of Publications:

  • Thalamohippocampal atrophy in focal epilepsy of unknown cause at the time of diagnosis. Leek NJ, Neason M, Kreilkamp BAK, de Bezenac C, Ziso B, Elkommos S, Das K, Marson AG, Keller SS. Eur J Neurol. 2020 Oct 4. doi: 10.1111/ene.14565. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33012040
  • Hippocampal subfield segmentation in temporal lobe epilepsy: Relation to outcomes. Kreilkamp BAK, Weber B, Elkommos S, Richardson MP, Keller SS. Acta Neurol Scand. 2018 Mar 23. doi: 10.1111/ane.12926. PMID: 29572865
  • Normative biometry of the fetal brain using magnetic resonance imaging. Kyriakopoulou V, Vatansever D, Davidson A, Patkee P, Elkommos S, Chew A, Martinez-Biarge M, Hagberg B, Damodaram M, Allsop J, Fox M, Hajnal JV, Rutherford MA. Brain Struct Funct. 2016 Nov 24. PMID:27885428
  • Hippocampal internal architecture and postoperative seizure outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy due to hippocampal sclerosis. Elkommos, Samia; Weber, Bernd; Niehusmann, Pitt; Volmering, Elisa; Richardson, Mark; Marson, Anthony; Elger, Christian; Keller, Simon In: Seizure. 2016 Feb;35:65-71. doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2016.01.007. Epub 2016 Jan 8. PMID: 26803053
  • Thalamotemporal alteration and postoperative seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy. Keller, Simon; Richardson, Mark; Schoene-Bake, Jan-Christoph; O’Muircheartaigh, Jonathan; Elkommos, Samia; Kreilkamp, Barbara; Goh, Yee; Marson, Anthony; Elger, Christian; Weber, Bernd In: Ann Neurol. 2015 May;77(5):760-74. doi: 10.1002/ana.24376. Epub 2015 Mar 13  PMID: 25627477
  • Presurgical entorhinal cortex volume and postoperative seizure outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy. Elkommos S, Richardson MP, Schoene-Bake JC, Marson A, Elger C, Weber B, Keller SS. In: Lancet Suppl. 2015 Feb 26;385 Suppl 1:S34. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60349-X. PMID: 26312856
  • Cortical Overgrowth in Fetuses With Isolated Ventriculomegaly. Kyriakopoulou, Vanessa; Vatansever, Deniz; Elkommos, Samia; Dawson, Sarah; McGuinness, Amy; Allsop, Joanna; Molnár, Zoltán; Hajnal, Joseph; Rutherford, Mary. In: Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 24, No. 8, 08.2014, p. 2141-2150. PMID: 23508710

 

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