Dr William Weir Takes Up the Post Of Medical Advisor To the NI MEA.
Dr William Weir, MB ChB (Dundee); MRCP (UK); FRCP (London); FRCP (Edinburgh) has accepted the post of Medical Advisor to the Association.
Dr Weir recently was one of the key speakers at the NI MEA Medical Conference in September.
He has many years experience in the medical field, and his Post-registration appointments included an SHO in Cardiology & Coronary Care, General Medicine & Endocrinology, Neurology and Chest Medicine. He continued as a Registrar in General Medicine and Nephrology before spending 18 months in Nigeria at a Teaching Hospital. This was followed by a post as a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He has many years experience in the medical field, and his Post-registration appointments included an SHO in Cardiology & Coronary Care, General Medicine & Endocrinology, Neurology and Chest Medicine. He continued as a Registrar in General Medicine and Nephrology before spending 18 months in Nigeria at a Teaching Hospital. This was followed by a post as a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Other posts have included Consultant Physician at the Royal Free Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Clinical Tropical Medicine and the personal Physician to HH Sheik Zayed, ruler of the United Arab Emirates. Dr Weir's other professional commitments have included Chairman of the Examining Committee of the Diploma of Tropical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians, Hon Clinical Secretary for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. Dr Weir's main clinical interests include Treatment of Severe Malaria; Imported Infections; ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Diagnosis of Occult forms of TB; Pyrexia of unknown origin and its presentations.
He ran an outpatients clinic for patients with ME/CFS between 1987 and 2000. He was also a member of the Westcare Taskforce on ME/CFS, and lectured at the British Society for the Study of Infection on ME/CFS. His current major Research interests are The Clinical Manifestations of ME/CFS, and Immunological Mechanisms in ME/CFS. Dr Weir has collaborated with the Department of Human Sciences at Brunel University in a number of studies of ME/CFS. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of both London and Edinburgh.
As Medical Advisor to the NI MEA Dr Weir will be willing to answer general written enquiries concerning ME, though he will not be dealing with individual medical management, as he feels this is still very much the remit of the patient's GP.
Dr Weir takes up this post with immediate effect, and the NI MEA is delighted to have such a wealth of clinical experience available to its members.
